Sentence examples for precipitous rate from inspiring English sources

In "human wave" assaults, they sent thousands of young men directly into the Iraqi lines, often to clear minefields, and soldiers died at a precipitous rate.

"We make a mistake if we are going to make our entire appeal rural and outside the Northeast and outside the Rust Belt," said Mr. King, of New York, who easily won re-election in a region shedding Republicans at a precipitous rate.

The media industry, which grew at a rate greater than 5.0% annually for four decades due to subscriber payments, affiliate fees and advertising revenues, is declining at an even more precipitous rate and there is little visibility for the future.

By the way, if you want proof that the Mustang needs a retro rebirth, you should know that original Mustangs in good condition currently trade for nearly the cost of new 2002 Mustangs, while the new cars depreciate at painfully precipitous rates.

A Kaplan-Meier survival curve shows that there is a precipitous mortality rate beginning at P13 (Figure 1).

TEs in the intergenic spaces are subjected to a precipitous turnover rate in Triticeae genomes [ 4].

It has been proposed that better endurance would exhibit a less precipitous decay rate of the median frequency [ 55], though conflicting opinions exist [ 56].

"You had a fairly precipitous rise in rates by the Fed, a move in oil that surprised most people.

I'm back from a couple of weeks on the road, and was greeted on my return by the precipitous rise in the interest rate on long-term U.S. bonds in less than a week, the yield on the ten-year note jumped more than fifty basis points (in layman's terms, it rose more than half a percentage point), which is a huge move for an asset as theoretically stable as a U.S. government bond.

I'm back from a couple of weeks on the road, and was greeted on my return by the precipitous rise in the interest rate on long-term U.S. bonds — in less than a week, the yield on the ten-year note jumped more than fifty basis points (in layman's terms, it rose more than half a percentage point), which is a huge move for an asset as theoretically stable as a U.S. government bond.

At a current natural gas price of $3.50 per million cubic feet drillers can barely make money on many shale wells, which require costly and water-hogging hydraulic "fracking," suffer precipitous volume-decline rates of 80% a year and lack easy access to pipelines.