Sentence examples for staggering drop in 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 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.
The $70 million sale price shows the paper's staggering drop in value since then, when the Times paid $1.1 billion for the Globe and its other local media properties.
The nation's second largest wireless carrier also posted a net gain of 726,000 subscribers in Q1 — a staggering drop from the record-setting 2.8 million subs that inked deals with AT&T last quarter, though those numbers are skewed a bit because of the big holiday buying push.
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.
Tax income has declined, too, with a staggering 81percentt drop in capital gains tax receipts between June 2008 and June 2009.
"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.
Furthermore, all five have seen a staggering percentage drop in sales of around 50% from the same 11-month period in 2007.
The company's chief financial officer, Ray Young, called the drop in production "a staggering number," and said consumers were showing increasing concern about G.M. products because of the potential for bankruptcy.
