Sentence examples for astonishing drop from inspiring English sources

Then … is this an astonishing drop from Prasanna Jayawardene?

City officials say such work supports have played a pivotal role in the astonishing drop in the number of adults receiving cash assistance in the city in the past decade.

However, the sense of urgency that followed the Newtown massacre has definitely faded, and new studies from the Department of Justice and the Pew Research Center showing an astonishing drop in gun violence over the past two decades seem to call into question the need for new, stricter regulations.

If the team can repeat two previous Heineken home wins over Biarritz — the first, in 2005, saw an astonishing drop goal by a forward, Hugh Vyvyan, the rugby equivalent of a baseball pitcher hitting a home run — it will be in the eight-team playoffs with a match to spare.

Week by week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., reported the trend: from 2.23 million square miles of ice remaining on Aug. 8 to 1.6 million square miles on Sept. 16, an astonishing drop from the previous low of 2.05 million square miles, reached in 2005.

The result was an astonishing 21% drop in the Denver area within the first three months.

In addition, cutbacks in the federal budget of 2012 to national housing repair and improvement programs are making a bad situation worse, with an astonishing 97% drop from $674 million in 2011 to $37 million in 2012 [ 32].

Since each child receives two drops of the vaccine, an astonishing 340m drops of oral polio vaccine (OPV), a vaccine developed in the 1950s by Albert Sabin, a Polish-American scientist, is needed.Given such massive quantities, pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur, have been able to keep the prices of the polio vaccine low.

Along the way, she picked up lovers at astonishing speed, and dropped them just as fast.

Like one of those dehydrated sponges which inflate to astonishing size when dropped into their proper element, Wheeler becomes a vastly different and more voluble person when he's on a trip (or recalling or anticipating a trip).

His "Dead Dad" was drop-dead astonishing: a smaller-than-life-size figure of uncanny lifelikeness, or in that case deathlikeness.