Sentence examples for dropping in number from inspiring English sources
According to records from the British Trust for Ornithology, populations of dunnocks or house sparrows, song thrushes and reed buntings fell to their lowest-ever recorded levels in the great freeze, song thrushes dropping in number by 28 per cent nationally compared to the average of the last five years, reed buntings by 23 per cent and dunnocks by 21 per cent.
Along the Western front these began quite early after the war and continued for several decades, dropping in number in the mid-1920s, when interest in the war temporarily diminished, and again in the Depression years of the early 1930s.
Starlings and house sparrows, once so common, have dropped in number by more than half in 25 years.
Hospital conferences aimed at improving patient safety and that are aided by autopsy findings have dropped in number and attendance, lessening the profession's internal monitoring, critics said.
After comparing aerial photos taken in McLean County in 1955 to ones shot in 2000, Ropp found that barns dropped in number from 4,859 to 1,229.
The knowledge is vital in the effort to halt the precipitous decline of the birds, which dropped in numbers in Britain by 65 per cent between 1984 and 2009.
Cases of overdose have also dropped in huge numbers.
Closely studied population of polar bears drops 40percentt in number over a decade.
Big drop in number of California students who are suspended, expelled.
In general, broader peaks translate to a decrease in the signal reaching the mass spectrometer, which in turn is associated to a drop in number of peptide identifications.
