Sentence examples for alarming fall from inspiring English sources

A long-term analysis of amphibians and reptiles in a Costa Rican nature reserve designed to protect them reveals an alarming fall in numbers.

The game also marked a return to form for Hook, who had suffered an alarming fall from grace at the World Cup.

Data released Friday by the European Central Bank showed what analysts at Barclays Capital called an "alarming" fall in bank lending to business and individuals in December, before the central bank loans would have had an effect.

Nonetheless, the currency war talk has been revived because of an alarming fall in the value of the Japanese yen, which is down more than 20 percent against the dollar since November.

Just consider the alarming fall off in the numbers of children receiving MMR vaccinations, now in some parts of the country below the threshold to ensure against an outbreak of the disease.

Latest figures show an alarming fall in annual '"affordable" rural housing completions in England to only 3,184 in 2011-12 – "affordable" now means paying rents at 80% of full-market rates – with social housing being consigned to history.

More troubling, though, is the alarming fall-off in loans from its soft-loan subsidiary, the International Development Association (IDA), to countries in sub-Saharan Africa, unquestionably the region in direst need of help.

By Adam Gopnik The sky fell last week, and it seemed less alarming than falling skies usually do.

Although the birth rate is rising healthily (ask Germany and Italy how alarming a falling rate feels), family size is dropping with remarkable speed.

And the banking system is much healthier now than in the 1980s, when financial liberalisation spurred reckless lending.Indeed, the drop in the Australian dollar today is much less alarming than the fall of the mid-1980s, when its trade-weighted index declined 40% in the space of 18 months.

Blacks born halfway up the income ladder, by contrast, show an alarming tendency to fall down.