"burden dropped" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which you or someone else is relieved of a responsibility or obligation. For example: When the team won the championship, the burden of expectations that had been placed on them suddenly dropped.
A number of studies have shown that in the period following S. japonicum infection, the worm burden drops sharply in water buffaloes and some other animal hosts such as pigs.
Studies have shown that in some animal hosts, such as rats, pigs, and water buffalo, in the period after S. japonicum infection, the worm burden drops sharply, mainly owing to parasite clearance by the immune system and non-immune system factors, called the self-cure phenomenon [ 12, 17, 18].
The richest 1percentt will see its tax burden drop by 1.5percentt, while middle earners see theirs drop by 1.2percentt.
Put another way, people with the top 1percentt of income saw their share of the tax burden drop to 20.1percentt after the tax cuts from 21.9percentt under the old law.
But every projection of the likely effects of the G.O.P. budget plan on various income and racial groups shows that the big winners would be the very wealthy, who are overwhelmingly white and who would see their tax burden drop considerably.
The household debt burden has dropped by about 5% of disposable income and helped keep the decline in home prices to a modest 3% in 2008, compared to double-digit drops in the U.S. and the U.K. Hong Kong investors will be eyeing property giant Cheung Kong Thursday as it tells investors about its latest financial results.
The average Michigander's tax burden has dropped significantly since Big John was in office.
In fact, according to the Census Bureau, the median household tax burden actually dropped from 24.9% in 2000 to 22.4% in 2009.
This increasing disparity in wealth has been greatest for the top 0.5% of earners - the wealthiest of the wealthy - yet their tax burden has dropped from 70% in 1967 to 35% today (it was scheduled to "soar" to 39.6% until the Obama/McConnell tax deal of December 2010).
Despite positive economic trends -- the United States added three million jobs in 2014, stock markets remain near all-time highs and household debt burdens have dropped -- all is not well in wage-stagnated Middle America.
