Sentence examples for margin drop from inspiring English sources

In addition to the inventory glut, Mr. Bryant attributed the margin drop to a shift in demand away from higher-margin products like microprocessors used in personal computers to less expensive products like motherboards and chipsets.

"You can get costs down over time," Mr. Kane said, "but when you have the revenue drop we had with the margin drop, you can't get small enough fast enough".

Chico's FAS, a $1.7 billion (sales) retailer of women's apparel, has seen its gross margin drop 3.4 percentage points in the past year as its store count increased to 930 from 763.

In the fourth quarter, Wells Fargo's net interest margin dropped slightly to 3.56 percent, from 3.89 percent a year earlier.

The state Department of Public Health recommends that work on developing new sources of water begin when the margin drops below 15percentt.

But in 2004, after Mr Bush increased the size of government and curtailed some civil liberties as part of the war on terror, his margin dropped to 59%-38 59%-38

Last month, Fatah defeated Hamas in the student elections again, though, due to the Israeli offensive against Gaza and disappointment with the Palestinian Authority's performance, its winning margin dropped to 5 percentage points.

"We've seen what happens, Rory wins majors by eight shots," the Australian mused and while the winning margin dropped to two this time and the execution was not the procession many had expected, the Northern Irishman led the Open from the first moment to the last and has become only the 16th player to win three of the four major championships.

The gross margin dropped to 33.6% in 1999, its lowest this decade; the operating margin sank to 8.2%, down 1.2 percentage points for the year.

In October, Amazon reported third-quarter earnings beat expectations, but gross margin dropped to 23.4% from 24.3% in the prior quarter.

Further, second-quarter gross margin dropped 2.4% in the second quarter over the year before, and Lattice said that it expects its margin to stay the same or decline a little more.