Next fall's freshman class will have only 65 students, a shocking drop that played a large role in prompting the archdiocese to try to close the school.
The Steelers are allowing 119.5 yards rushing a game to rank 23rd in the league, a shocking drop for a team that made it to the Super Bowl on the strength of a defense ranked first against the run in 2010.
General Electric's shocking drop in first-quarter profits pushed European shares lower during midday trading on Friday, despite merger talk in the telecommunications and utilities sectors.
It really does seem to have almost snuck up on people, this sudden shocking drop in the economy.
Some shocking drops in ratings have prompted the rights-holders to go another way but all concerned must now cross their fingers that ITV's style of presentation will be acceptable to them and more appealing to more people than Channel 4's programme proved to be.
Statistics on the creative industries published in July by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport revealed a shocking 10% drop in the number of women in architecture, while the number of black and minority-ethnic architects remains unchanged.
What's more, there has been a shocking 40% drop in 16- and 17-year-olds registered to vote," she said.
The company laid out a shocking expected drop in its DVD-by-mail business, and warned that the combination of softening domestic business and increasing costs for international expansion are going to push the company into the red for at least part of 2012.
"We have urged him to support universities to register their students when they fill out standard university forms, and to give all areas access to schemes like the Northern Ireland Schools Initiative, to address the shocking 40% drop in 16 and 17-year-olds on the register," she said.
