Sentence examples for a drastic decline from from inspiring English sources

That is a drastic decline from about a year ago when between 1,500 and 2,000 foreign fighterswere joining the group in Iraq and Syria each month, said Air Force Major General Peter Gersten, deputy commander for operations and intelligence for the U.S.-led coalition, during a news briefing.

Since 1980, however, the summer sea ice cover over the Arctic has gone into a drastic decline, from 7.8m sq km to 4.4m sq km in 2012, before rebounding slightly.

The hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has suffered from a drastic decline for the same reason: loss of habitat.

There is a drastic decline for small clusters C1 to C4, meanwhile larger clusters C4, C6, C8 are presenting a relatively gradual shrink.

When yeast flocs were inoculated into fresh media, vigorous growth quickly depleted dissolved oxygen in the media and fermentation reducing power outperformed oxidizing power, leading to a drastic decline of ORP from 110 mV to −220 mV in Region I, which was characterized by a logarithmic growth of yeast flocs.

A study of the factors influencing wildebeest populations in the Maasai Mara ecosystem revealed that the populations had undergone a drastic decline of around 80% from about 119,000 individuals in 1977 to around 22,000 twenty years later.

It is already a pretty drastic decline from the beginning of this year.

As our videographic explains, Asia has seen a drastic decline in its fertility rate, from 5.8 children per woman in 1960 to a predicted 2.1 next year.

The Obama campaign's initial response to the latest wave of bad economic news was, I'm sorry to say, disreputable: Mr. Obama's top economic adviser claimed that the long-term tax-cut plan the candidate announced months ago is just what we need to keep the slump from "morphing into a drastic decline in consumer spending".

There has been a drastic decline in the Bueng Boraphet swallow population from the hundreds of thousands reported to roost around 1970 to maximum counts of 8,000 made in the winter of 1980 1981, although it is not certain if this represents a real decline or a shift in site in response to hunting.

On the other hand, they quoted data from Nigeria where a "drastic decline in hospital births" was observed after user fee introduction in the 1980s, while "the admissions of complicated obstetric cases increased" [ 7].