Sentence examples for staggering decline from inspiring English sources
The CompStat era coincided with a staggering decline in crime.
One section asks provocatively whether New York's plummeting crime rate over two decades was unique, and precisely what caused the staggering decline.
In the following decades, there were dozens of songs written on the subject, often referencing the staggering decline in employment rates in the industry – and plenty were nominated.
Conservation groups tend to put the current population of African lions at roughly between 20,000 and 50,000, a staggering decline from the estimated 400,000 that were born and roamed free a half-century ago.
Public appetite can certainly help influence species populations – the staggering decline of tuna is a notable example – but a sizable shift in dining attitudes would need to occur before swamp rat replaces rump steak on menus.
But over the last year, investors have been fleeing Janus as its funds have plummeted, and the assets of the company have plunged from $330 billion in March 2000 to $200 billion at the end of July -- a staggering decline of almost 40percentthatat has sliced away at the profits of its parent company, Stilwell Financial, a Kansas financial holding company.
The BBC Springwatch presenter said: "As a society we are guilty of standing idly by as once common species, never mind the rarities, suffer staggering declines.
They made this important contribution to the science by using rigorous methodology to isolate several types of water pollution most likely to have caused these staggering declines.
"It's a staggering sequential decline in margins," said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
Assuming fertility falls at current rates, says the UN, the world's population will rise from 6.8 billion to 9.2 billion in 2050, at which point it will stabilise (see chart 1).Behind this is a staggering fertility decline.
Sun Ovens International, an Illinois company that manufactures solar-powered ovens, had sales fall to less than $200,000 in 2000 from $1.6 million a year earlier — a staggering 88 percent decline made worse by the fact that the company got stuck with $100,000 in unpaid invoices after the Y2K bust.
