Sentence examples for exceptional fall from inspiring English sources

On a bad day globally for stocks, Russia's markets took an exceptional fall Friday.

And on a bad day globally for stocks, Russia's markets took an exceptional fall Friday.

IN HIS 1981 essay, "Poverty and Famines", Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, argued that the 1943 Bengal famine, in which 3m people died, was not caused by any exceptional fall in the harvest and pointed out that food was still being exported from the state while millions perished.

For the year ended 30 March, pre-tax profit excluding exceptional items fell 12% to £20.9m.

BHP's second-half profit before exceptional items fell to $7.16 billion from $10.98 billion a year earlier, as calculated by Reuters from the full-year results.

For the year to 31 March, pre-tax profit before exceptional items fell 4.2% to £21m on revenues 0.8% higher at £485.1m.

Archant – which produces four daily regional newspapers, about 60 weekly titles and 80 magazines – has reported that operating profits before amortisation and exceptional items fell by 63% to £2.6m.

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On Thursday, Xstrata said its annual profits for 2008, including exceptionals, had fallen by 35.0% to $3.6 billion, or $3.75 a share.

Still, at times you can't help but wonder: Did this fellow choose two exceptional women to fall in love with or two complete nutters?

Excluding costs from the Naked Wines acquisition and exceptional items, profit fell 1% to £8.4m.