Sentence examples for by a sharp drop from inspiring English sources
Mikako Kitagawa, an analyst at Gartner, said the recent numbers were affected by a sharp drop in shipments a year ago, when PC makers were looking forward to a new operating system from Microsoft (which failed to bolster demand, but they didn't know that at the time).
They are standing on the escarpment, by a sharp drop.
The shortfall was chiefly caused by a sharp drop in taxes from real estate transactions, transportation authority officials said.
Gateway said its business was badly hurt by a sharp drop in demand after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Retail sales declined 0.1percentt in July, led by a sharp drop in automobile sales, the Commerce Department said.
The stock market fell in a broad sell-off on Wednesday, led by a sharp drop in shares of Apple on worries about slowing demand for its products.
Schaaf and Whent have argued that the agency has become a leader in reform through training aimed at combating racial profiling, improvements in how police communicate with residents, and by overseeing a sharp drop in cops' use of force.
It's a slope followed by a sharp drop-off, and it's one of the most famous dive sites on the planet, the Via Veneto of the underwater world.
The combination of a slowdown in trading by customers and a sharp drop in the issuance of stocks and bonds by corporate clients presents a double whammy for big securities firms that serve both, like Morgan Stanley and the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup.
A poll of households by MORI showed a sharp drop in optimism in June, when a net balance of 19% said they thought the economy would get worse over the next 12 months rather than better.
See articleBrazil's economy grew by 2.7% last year, a sharp drop from the expansion of 7.5% chalked up in 2010 and well below the average for other Latin American countries.
