Sentence examples for about the precipitous from inspiring English sources

"What's all this fuss about the precipitous decline of print?" "Does global warming affect creeks?" " I think I hear something.

When city financial officials warned about the precipitous drop-off in camera revenue in September, maintenance concerns never figured into city officials' public explanations for the shortfall.

But that is a subset of all direct-mail advertisements.Your correspondent, who nearly four years ago wrote about the precipitous drop in routine mail, such as invoices, bills and the like, fills the Babbage family's recycling bin with missives imploring the household to sign up for cable-modem service (already installed), revise one's mortgage or apply for a credit card.

And it's what the G7 finance ministers did early this morning when they issued a statement about the precipitous rise in the value of the yen, saying they were "concerned about the recent excessive volatility" in the yen's exchange rate and that they would "cooperate as possible".

Waxing tongue in cheek about "the perils inherent in everybody's suddenly eating everything" (he cites a newspaper article about the precipitous rise nationwide in bagel-related injuries), Trillin longs for the days of "preglobalized eating," wistful for a time "before it became common to find Cajun restaurants in upper Midwestern shopping malls and lobster shacks in Amarillo".

The time has come to begin to raise questions about the precipitous decline in the labor force assumed by BLS.

Their erotic charge has to do with the precipitous sense that the scene is about to shift.

Piling into a small rental car, they drove through the precipitous Judean Mountains down toward the sea, about an hour and a half away.

Coinciding with a drop in U.S. household net worth was the precipitous drop in home equity of about $7 trillion between 2006 and 2011.

And despite the precipitous drop in album sales in the last decade — about 50 percent fewer albums were sold in 2009 than in 2000 — major deals continued apace, often with bad endings.

In the aftermath, criticism has swirled about poor preparations and delays caused by climbers laying ropes improperly in the Bottleneck, the precipitous climb just below the summit.