Sentence examples for precipitous than from inspiring English sources

That was more precipitous than the collapse in America that followed the dotcom bust in 2000.

His fall was even more precipitous than Ortiz's, although Ortiz may eventually wish he had only suffered some broken bones.

Mr. Ovitz's fall has been far more precipitous than his rise, which began in the late 1960's.

The road had narrowed to an old camel path and the dropoffs were more precipitous than ever, but we decided to forge ahead.

The terrain of the North Island is much less precipitous than that of the South and has a more benign climate and greater economic potential.

He was made vice-governor of Guangdong, China's wealthiest province, and then mayor of Guangzhou, the province's capital and China's third-biggest city.Yet Mr Wan's fall was even more precipitous than his rise.

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

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.

These results suggest that sensitivity to odorant-induced POC activity in block-design experiments can be optimized by modeling an early phasic response followed by a precipitous rather than specific exponential decrease to baseline levels.

In his excellent critique of the game, Brendan Keogh asserts Desert Golfing is more about crossing a landscape – with the unique physics of its soft dunes, weird peaks and precipitous recesses – than it is about golf.

However, under the burst model, this type of statistical artifact leads to much more precipitous declines than those actually observed, whereas when incorporated into a model that allows for an early steady-state process, there is virtually no influence on the age distribution (fig. 6).