Sentence examples for minor drop from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Scott replaces Starks; he has some experience, but since Ben Roethlisberger checks his stock portfolio and updates his Facebook status in the pocket, even a minor drop in protection could result in a six-sack evening.

The latest edition of the programme for international student achievement (Pisa) from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopublishedCD), published today, shows the UK's position virtually unchanged from the last exercise in 2009, with slight improvements in the reading and maths scores of the nation's 15 year-olds offset by a minor drop in science.

Although there were many instances of slight erosions in city services -- a minor drop in the number of parks rated clean, a small delay in the amount of time it took to repair non-emergency problems with traffic lights -- the report showed that the city was able to avoid the kind of enormous service cuts that it resorted to in the 1970's.

The stock market crashed in 1987, while today we are experiencing a minor drop.

The same group of VCs was also active in the summer with a minor drop in the fall.

There is a minor drop in the number of faults at a distance of 30 to 40 km from the trench.

Because the lake is so shallow, even minor drops expose much more land around the lake.

Microsoft and Symbian round out the top five, both with minor drops in overall share.

Most of these were minor maintenance issues or improper settings which caused only minor drops in performance, but which would have gotten worse if undetected.

Furthermore, when social relationship attributes were also considered, there were some minor drops in precision but with generally higher F-measure.

The report says that such minor drops may be a result of oil affecting the membrane of the detector the scientists were using; now scientists are using a second method to be sure.