But demand dropped off steeply during the recession when businesses had progressively smaller tax liabilities.
Tourism has dropped off steeply since 9/11 – in the 1990s thousands of people visited Chitral annually, now that figure is below 100 – and we were among few outsiders to visit the Kalash valleys in the past year.
A street that connected to the street that ran in front of Duncan's house dropped off steeply beyond the driveway of the Burned-Down House, and very late on a winter weekend night when the temperature was below freezing we turned on the hydrant at the top of the hill and let it run for a while.
The state is facing an $11.5 billion deficit for the current fiscal year, caused in large part by the decision of Mr. Pataki and legislative leaders to use up the state's savings and one-time revenues, accrued over the last two years, as tax collections dropped off steeply.
Point allocations dropped off steeply as a function of rank, with best friend attracting nearly a quarter of the total points (Figure 1).
The desert drops off steeply to the east, falling 1,200 m over a course of 20 km to a nadir of –400 m on the shores of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on land on Earth.
The main glacial surface drops off steeply into deep canyons, with the lower glaciers in places riven by crevasses as much as 100 feet (30 metres) deep.
The next morning, I joined Kaj and two other divers, a German man and a young man from Chile who had a large underwater camera and wanted to dive along a coral wall that dropped off steeply, like an underwater cliff.
The ferrylHb species was ruled out because: (a) there was no exposure to H2O2, nor were there any environmental conditions that would lead to such exposure; and, (b) the spectra do not show evidence of its existence, primarily by the lack of spectral broadening where the 577 nm shoulder drops off steeply around 585 nm.
The increase in hand washing was limited in scope to the period of time after which hand washing dropped off steeply to the lowest levels in the 6-month period before finally rising again to a 'baseline' level.
