Sentence examples for an abrupt decline from inspiring English sources

Lucent's revenue already reflects an abrupt decline in spending by its customers, as sales plunged 28percentto to $5.2 billion.

Goa underwent an abrupt decline in the 17th century Military and business harassment by the Dutch was partly to blame.

Kodak, which has cut profit estimates three times since September, said an abrupt decline in orders left it with large inventories and increased expenses.

Other times of rampant bearishness were in 1994, after an abrupt decline in share prices that followed a Federal Reserve move to raise interest rates, and in 1998, amid the Asian financial crisis.

Cisco Systems, the leading supplier of Internet networking systems, said Monday that its revenue in the current quarter would plunge 30percentt from the previous three months, reflecting an abrupt decline in orders.

Such an abrupt decline in the ocean's dominant hunters could substantially alter marine food chains in ways that are impossible to predict and might take decades to reverse, the researchers and other experts said.

Between 1984 and 1996, celiac disease incidence displayed an epidemic pattern among children below two years of age consisting of a rapid four-fold increase in incidence rate followed by an equally abrupt decline one decade later [ 7, 8].

But an unexpectedly abrupt decline from the double digit rates of the previous decade has complicated the ruling Communist party's plans to promote more sustainable growth based on domestic consumption and reduce reliance on trade and investment.

Although some patients have a gradual steady decline, punctuated by periods of acute illness, many exhibit a gradual deterioration in their functional status before a more abrupt decline in the final weeks of life [ 3].

Further, data from the "Swedish celiac epidemic", where childhood CD incidence displayed an epidemic pattern with a rapid four-fold increase in incidence in 1984 and a later abrupt decline in 1996, coinciding with changed infant feeding recommendations, have suggested that environmental factors influence CD development [ 5].

But those figures partly mask a more abrupt decline, accelerating since ITV's advertising began to slide in August 2000, Mr. Smith said.