Sentence examples for staggering drop from inspiring English sources

As Raine tells it, this program will lead to a staggering drop in crime, among other benefits.

Her penultimate novel, "Elephants Can Remember," exhibits a "staggering drop in vocabulary" -- of 31percentt -- when compared with "Destination Unknown," a novel she wrote 18 years earlier.

The price would represent a staggering drop in value for The Globe, which The Times bought in 1993 for $1.1 billion, among the highest prices paid for an American newspaper.

The staggering drop over six years, according to the Long Island Index, an annual study of local economic and social trends, is the result of sluggish income growth and soaring housing costs, among other factors that have made the area increasingly unaffordable and driven many people away.

The industry was already struggling with a staggering drop in prices that has sent the Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductor Index down more than 28% this year.

As it stands there are still over 11,000 phone booths peppering the five boroughs, a pretty staggering drop from the nearly 35,000 that could be found around town in the mid-to-late 90s.

But if we are to see new, less experienced entrants to this market, a robust governance framework will be essential if we are to avoid the staggering drop-out rates, over-recruitment, and under-investment that has destroyed parts of the US for-profit sector.

Tax income has declined, too, with a staggering 81percentt drop in capital gains tax receipts between June 2008 and June 2009.

Figures published last week from the Bank of England revealed that just 33,000 new mortgages were approved in July – a staggering 71 per cent drop on the same month the previous year.

"We've seen 8.8% fewer students taking music A-level, and a staggering 33% drop in entries to art and design subjects at AS-level," he said.

Rosa Khutor boasts a staggering vertical drop of 1,075 meters, about 50 meters longer than the venerable Lauberhorn course in Wengen, Switzerland, another test of endurance that Feuz has won this season.