Sentence examples for drop for the first time from inspiring English sources

But after 2016, says Cisco, the number of featurephones in use overall will begin to drop for the first time ever as smartphones become a larger part of connectivity.

TOKYO — The Toyota Motor Corporation said on Thursday that its annual profit would probably drop for the first time in nine years because of the slowdown in the United States economy, accelerating a shift by it and other Asian car manufacturers into emerging markets like China, Latin America and the Middle East.

PAGE C3 TOYOTA EXPECTS DROP Toyota said that its annual profit would probably drop for the first time in nine years because of the slowdown in the United States economy, accelerating a shift into emerging markets like China and Latin America and the Middle East and underscoring the declining stature of the United States in the global economy.

The following year saw the singles market drop for the first time since the format was introduced, slipping to 182m.That figure will continue to fall, especially as consumers increasingly realise they don't want their computer hard drive stuffed with MP3s when they can stream anything they want.

The country is in the midst of a video game and entertainment crackdown, causing Tencent to face a profit drop for the first time in more than a decade, and creating a cascade of concern for other high-flying Chinese consumer tech companies.

After rising to record levels under the Barack Obama administration, deportations will likely drop for the first time in a decade this year, Bloomberg reports.

Germany's unemployment rate in October 2006 dropped below 10% to 9.5%–for the first time since 2002.

In 2010, funding dropped for the first time.

But yearly sales dropped for the first time in at least a quarter-century.

But last weekend, as the financial crisis erupted, sales dropped for the first time in decades.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve reported that consumer credit had dropped for the first time in four years.