Sentence examples for a drop of eight from inspiring English sources

All Hannan asked of his readers was to follow his empirical tour d'horizon: globally, according to UN statistics, the number of people dying violently has fallen by 6% since 2000; there has been a drop of eight percentage points in the number of people suffering from malnutrition since 1990; satellite imagery suggests that green spaces have grown by 14% over the past three decades; and so on.

A drop of eight classes means a drop of eight teachers.

Sabia notes that while the size of the weight gains discussed is large, even a 0.2 point drop in GPA translates to a drop of eight percentiles.

It is a drop of seven percentage points since January.

A drop of four percentage points has allowed buyers to get a 56percentt larger loan.

Alongside that, we have seen a drop of two thirds in the number of people formally accepted as homeless.

English scores were about the same as the previous year but showed a drop of four percentage points from four years ago.

In the New York Times/CBS News, poll just forty per cent of respondents said they approved of it, a drop of ten points in a month.

A drop of four or five percentage points in the top tax rate of these households saves them tens of millions of dollars.

Then, just as we began the long final descent to Gisenyi, a drop of three thousand feet in elevation over eighteen and a half miles, the rain crashed down.

That survey also revealed that 59% of people thought they had a say in what the government does, a drop of five percentage points on 2003.