Sentence examples for dropping to a third from inspiring English sources

Stockton, where median home prices tripled between 1998 and 2005, before dropping to a third of their peak value, illustrates the scale of California's woes.

A 2009 report from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) found only half of all patients with AKI had received good care, dropping to a third of those who developed it while in hospital.

The government is placing its hopes in FDI, which in 2009 dropped to a third of its 2007 highs.

True, the number tuning in has dropped to a third of the 12 million who watched Carson in his heyday.

Meanwhile, Fermenta's stock has dropped to a third of its value of a year ago and the stock exchange has suspended trading in the company's shares.

Rates in Kenya and Tanzania have dropped to a third of their levels three decades ago, mainly because of a combination of community activism and legislation.

So, too, are other $1 million-plus rare birds like the Porsche 959, Ferrari 288 GTO and Ferrari F40, though its value has dropped to a third of that amount since 1990.

Last year that dropped to a third of £1m-plus sales, with Wandsworth, Hammersmith and Fulham, Camden, and Richmond upon Thames each reporting more than 500 sales at this price level.

"If it started out with a gene frequency of 20%, the highest you get in Africa, and you put it in a nonmalarial area, it should drop to a third that in ten generations.

Now the number of farms has tripled, but the number of farmers has dropped to a third.

Half of Americans said use was immoral as recently as 2006 -- now that number has dropped to a third, while half say that marijuana usage is "not a moral issue".