Sentence examples for plummet about from inspiring English sources
It was a crack in the turntable that caused the crane to plummet about 200 feet and kill the operator, Donald C. Leo, and another construction worker, Ramadan Kurtaj, prosecutors said.
She said the department was investigating a nylon sling that is believed to have snapped, allowing seven tons of steel studs to plummet about 13 floors from a crane and crush a trailer that sat on the building's scaffolding.
Despite increasing its number of installations, the company has seen its stock plummet about 63% in the last year.
It's a relief for the battered home improvement market, which saw consumer spending plummet about 27% since 2007 as homeowners delayed or scrapped remodeling plans.
In the 1980s, in just over two years, the price plummeted about 65percentt.
"Our contact rates have plummeted about 20percentt" recently, says PACE's Stuart Discount.
The "news" spread virally, the market took notice, and within three minutes the Dow Jones Industrial Average had plummeted about 145 points.
In the last 50 years (since the supreme court unanimously reaffirmed defendant rights), the US incarceration rate has exploded more than 700%, while public defender budgets have plummeted about 600%.
The proposals – four in Oregon, two in Washington state and one in California – cropped up after the domestic market for coal plummeted about five years ago.
The foreign boats, many buying permits and government concessions with bribes, worked the gulf hard until the catch started plummeting about a decade ago.
Morantz estimates that their costs per worker-hour plummeted about 44percentt, from roughly 14 cents per worker-hour under workers' compensation to around 8 cents per worker-hour under the private plans.
