Sentence examples for more precipitous drop from inspiring English sources

The Senate has seen an even more precipitous drop in rank-and-file participation.

"There has been a more precipitous drop than we historically see," said David R. Whitwam, Whirlpool's chief executive.

BBC1 was marginally down on the 4.1 million viewers who turned in five years ago, with ITV suffering a more precipitous drop from 1.3 million last time round.

Revenue from the bank's fixed-income trading swooned 26 percent, to $2.78 billion, a more precipitous drop than at JPMorgan Chase, which also reported a slump in trading revenue on Friday.

But private polling by both parties shows an even more precipitous drop, especially among independent voters, moderate Republicans and women, according to a dozen strategists from both parties who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the data was confidential.

The same unofficial tally also shows that a longer, more precipitous drop in the number of Christian Science practitioners and teachers may have finally leveled off.

This started to change in the mid-1970s, when a group of economists that included Arthur Laffer and the future Nobel laureates Robert Mundell and Herbert Simon argued that above a certain tax rate on the last dollar of their earnings, the amount of work individuals supplied to the marketplace would begin to fall, and the higher the rate, the more precipitous the drop.

Plasma TV prices had an even more precipitous decline, dropping 51.6percentt in the same period.

Unlike with soybeans and oil, where the decline was more precipitous, the 55.65% drop in August was preceded by a $296.16 million, 46.69% drop in July, and a $506.30 million, 50.32% decline in June.

Scholars and the nuns themselves point to a number of factors responsible for the dwindling population of nuns, a decline far more precipitous than the corresponding drop in the number of Roman Catholic priests.

In a few short years, polls showed a precipitous drop -- more than 30percentt -- in their understanding about climate change.