Sentence examples for plummeted about from inspiring English sources

The "news" spread virally, the market took notice, and within three minutes the Dow Jones Industrial Average had plummeted about 145 points.

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 share price of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica has plummeted about a third in the last five years, weighed down by around 49 billion euros of debt racked up before the financial crisis began.

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%.

Sales of Japanese-brand models have plummeted about 40 percent in each of the past two months compared with a year ago after a territorial dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea led to rioting and the destruction of around 100 Japanese-brand cars.

AMD stock plummeted, about 5%, or 88 cents, to $16.65, a new 52-week low price.

The foreign boats, many buying permits and government concessions with bribes, worked the gulf hard until the catch started plummeting about a decade ago.

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.

The van continued to gain speed and barreled through a chain-link fence before plummeting about 50 feet down the side of a cliff, coming to rest on its side in the backyard of a home above Jerome Avenue.

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.