shrunk

But you have a point, and if you want to see the future of Worldcon, you can look at Westercon, which has shrunk from a high attendance in the high 2000s to around 500, partially because it stayed away from its core constituency (the San Francisco-Los Angeles) axis for so long that lots of the regular attendees drifted away because they didn't/couldn't fly off to El Paso, Honolulu, Spokane, Calgary, etc

MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other? 2009

But you have a point, and if you want to see the future of Worldcon, you can look at Westercon, which has shrunk from a high attendance in the high 2000s to around 500, partially because it stayed away from its core constituency (the San Francisco-Los Angeles) axis for so long that lots of the regular attendees drifted away because they didn't/couldn't fly off to El Paso, Honolulu, Spokane, Calgary, etc.

MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other? 2009

Since 2000, ACoC has shrunk from a little over 650,000 attendees in 2000 to around 325,000 in 2010, a loss of over 20,000 people annually.

Bishops in Space « Anglican Samizdat 2010

With the introduction of quotas in 1984, reserves have shrunk from a gargantuan 1.28 million tonnes in 1986, to a laughable 16,000 tonnes this year.

Archive 2007-08-01 Steve Carper 2007

With the introduction of quotas in 1984, reserves have shrunk from a gargantuan 1.28 million tonnes in 1986, to a laughable 16,000 tonnes this year.

Rising Milk Prices Require More Subsidies? Steve Carper 2007

Oddly, the number of ballots shrunk from the first count to the recountThe total ballots counted in the first count were 92,992 and ballots counted in the manual recount were 92,930, a difference of 62 ballots.

Sound Politics: King Cantcounty lost 62 ballots in recount 2006

"Possibly," Chorley says, Hemans "shrunk from the research and illustration recommended to her, as involving too much labour; at all events, the poem was never completed" (1: 56-57).

Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

She had a certain consciousness – or fear – that it would not be understood, and she would be laughed at – not openly, for Dr. Sandford was never impolite; but yet she shrunk from the cold glance of unbelief, or of derision, however well and kindly masked.

Melbourne House 1907

But for your perseverance and your faithful belief in the value of Manson's induction, you would have shrunk from the difficulties.

Ronald Ross - Banquet Speech 1905

Any mother in England would have shrunk from the thought that her best-beloved son – especially a young man of Guy's temperament, and under Guy's present circumstances – was thrown into the society which now surrounded the debauched dotage of the too-notorious Earl of Luxmore.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897