Sentence examples for average drop for from inspiring English sources

According to Barrie A. Wigmore's book The Crash and Its Aftermath, consumer product company stocks fell 35% off peak 1929 prices, compared with an average drop for all stocks of 75%.

Now 30, he is a defensive liability whose batting average dropped for the third consecutive season in 2005, bottoming out at.268.

The next year, 2000, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped for the first time in a decade, by 6%.

For instance, people report an average drop of 0.6 for a divorce, and one full point for experiencing unemployment or a spouse's death.

The Nationwide Building Society found an average 1 percent drop in the value of homes in the county in the 12 months to October 2011, compared with an average drop of 1.6 percent for Britain as a whole.

That performance, amid the onset of the financial crisis, shone brightly compared with an average drop of 19 percent for hedge funds and a fall of 37 percent in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.

Overall felony crime -- murder, rape, robbery, assault, grand larceny, auto theft and burglary -- dropped 5.8percentt, nearly a dozen times the national average drop of 0.5percentt for all cities, Mr. Bloomberg said, despite a smaller force and the department's new counterterrorism responsibilities.

That's compared to an average drop of 11.8percentt for American homeowners overall between 2007 and 2009.

"Hulk" set a record with a seventy-per-cent decline in ticket sales between its opening and the second weekend, but the average drop-off for all movies is fifty per cent, and it is almost the definition of a blockbuster that the first weekend is a make-or-break proposition.

Ventura went 0 for 4, his average dropping below.230 for the first time since April 24.

Without the ice sheet that is now weighing down Greenland's terrain, a river in the canyon would, on average, drop about 30 centimeters for every kilometer it flowed seaward, the team estimates.