Sentence examples for precipitous a decline from inspiring English sources

Why, then, has there been so precipitous a decline in the percentage of Americans who support stricter guns laws?

A complete ban in 1989 helped slow a precipitous decline, but a population estimated at 1.3 million in 1980 is down to less than 500,000 today.

Sales at Barnes & Noble stores open at least a year fell 8.4percentt in March, a precipitous decline, according to a company statement announcing a first-quarter shortfall.

It is always in dramatic change, on a precipitous decline or on a fast uphill growth spike.

BALLARD--Jeannette Haien, died on September 23 , 2008after a precipitous decline in health following a heart attack on July 29.

In the U.S., unemployment insurance pays relatively little and runs out relatively quickly, so losing a job usually means a precipitous decline in income.

Rick Ruth, Ms. Lieberman's chief of staff, said: "First there was a slow and then a precipitous decline in money for cultural and artistic programming.

We also see a strong anthropogenic effect on modern vegetation following European settlement in A.D. 1854, a period marked by a precipitous decline in traditional tribal use of the area and the inception of modern fire exclusion policies.

Some patients presented with nystagmus, likely related to optic atrophy and serving as a heralding symptom before a precipitous decline in upper limb strength, respiratory function and hearing.

The UK, a spirited nation that until 1997 ruled an empire, has unquestionably had a precipitous decline geopolitically.

The greatest power to reset the organism's daily meter lay in the blues, with a precipitous decline into the greens and a modest boost in the reds.