The phrase "a drop of over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a decrease in quantity, value, or measurement, often in a statistical or financial context.
Example: "The report indicated a drop of over 20% in sales compared to last year."
Alternatives: "a decline of more than" or "a decrease of over".
Despite a full-color relaunch and some of the most creative front pages in the business, The Indie’s circulation of just 201,019 on average per day (the smallest of any UK quality title) is a drop of over 12% on last year, while its good-looking new Independent.co.uk trails everyone bar Mirror Group on 7.99 million monthly users.
In January, Japan's exports to China across a wide range of industries — from consumer electronics to the machines that make them — fell more than 17percentt from a year earlier, after a drop of over 6percentt in December.
PeopleSoft shares closed at $18.375 on Friday, a drop of over 30percentt since January.
By this yardstick 969m people suffered from absolute poverty in 2004, a drop of over 270m since 1990.
Looking down from the colonnaded terrace, you tremble above a drop of over one thousand feet down to the sea.
The first part of the floating exchange rate story worked: the credit crunch led to a drop of over 20% (blue line in the chart).
Probability of a negative return The respondent's probability of a negative change in house prices is calculated as the sum of the number of points attributed to intervals 1 and 2 (i.e. to a moderate drop of around 3%% and a large drop of over 6%%).
The University of Derby saw application figures fall by 25.4%, while Surrey had a drop of just over 20%.
Francisco Lopes, director of monetary policy at the central bank, placed reserves at $55 billion, a drop of $17 billion over the last month.
Cities with a population of a million or more reported the largest decline in property crime, with a drop of 7.9 percent over all — including a 21.1 percent falloff in reported motor vehicle thefts.
At the close of trading on Friday, which came before the downgrade, the broader market as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500-stock indendeddowndown 0.69 points at 1,199.38, for a drop of 7.1 percent over the week.
