Sentence examples for a substantial plunge from inspiring English sources

Our results show that even if the secondary level of contact tracing is less effective in detection, with a substantial plunge in the percentage of detection from the first level contact tracing as noted previously, it still plays an important role in determining whether the disease can eventually be eradicated.

Equipped with a substantial budget, I plunged into Rome's pricier pleasures and discovered it is now a Janus-faced city, looking increasingly to the future even as it contemplates its remarkable past.

Even though a substantial part of the worst plunge appeared to be linked to a trader error — one $40 stock fell for a time to one penny — prices had fallen around the world even before such mistakes began to happen.

China's growth rate is plunging and a substantial portion of their economy has been in recession for almost a year.

Shares of World Wide Web travel sellers plunged yesterday as a substantial piece of their business was thrown into doubt, a day after the Northwest Airlines Corporation said it would stop paying commissions to United States and Canadian Web sites selling its tickets.

The two bought a substantial stake in LaRoche and took the plunge, and a cut in income, to make the firm their own.

Subject to no meteorological effects and unprotected by a substantial atmosphere, the uppermost surface reaches almost 400 kelvins (K; 260 °F, 127 °C) during the day and plunges to below 100 K (−279 °F, −173 °C) at night.

All of this should guarantee a substantial flow of tourists, but Yemen remains a troubled place, enough so that the number of foreign visitors plunged after the Cole bombing and the simultaneous renewal of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

We made a substantial bid.

A substantial irony enters here.

That is a substantial amount.