Sentence examples for hefty drop from inspiring English sources

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In its second weekend of play, Northern Soul fell 66%, although that hefty drop is perhaps understandable given that the opening weekend was boosted by venues holding one-off showings, and many of these locations were not continuing to play the title.

To Larson, it means the handwriting is on the wall, namely a hefty drop in stock prices.

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Applying their findings to models of a world with unabated emissions, they found yield declines of 63-82% by the end of the century, with hefty drops even in the relatively clement first half.This study, like many, made no provision for CO2 fertilisation.

Les Misérables opened spectacularly a couple of weekends ago with £8.13m, then suffered a hefty 46% drop on its second frame when blankets of snow discouraged cinemagoing across the country.

This follows Friday's hefty 32% drop and means that the group, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, has lost almost 80% of its stock market value since the start of the year when it was valued at more than £5bn.

Late Sunday, China’s largest insurer spooked investors, reporting a hefty 60.91% drop in net profit for the first quarter of the year to 3.474 billion yuan ($496.29 million) from 8.89 billion yuan ($1.27 billion) a year earlier based on Chinese accounting standards, shrinking its earnings per share to 0.12 yuan (1.7 cents).

Ugh! Weiss expects the current quarter to produce another wicked GDP setback of between 6.2% and 7%, following a hefty 6.2% drop in the fourth quarter of 2008, which was the steepest decline in 26 years.

Many institutions have suffered sizeable drops in their NIH funding, but a few have enjoyed hefty increases.

The pound weakened on fears over the UK's own hefty deficit, dropping to a three-week low of $1.5145, while the euro climbed 0.5% to 86.77p.

Even television is bellying up to the bar, with Lifetime's introduction of a hefty heroine in "Drop Dead Diva" and a show having its premiere this month on Fox that stresses the "reality" in reality TV.

Consider this week's instalment, which managed to burn through a fair chunk of plot, drop some hefty revelations and even find time for not one but two dream sequences, all the while smartly touching on themes of belonging, alienation and – naturally – death.

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