Sentence examples for surprising drop in from inspiring English sources

Little was made at the time of a report by the Société protectrice des animaux on the surprising drop in the number of stray cats and dogs.

The study's collaborators also recorded a surprising drop in fertilizer use — about 15% per crop — saving 1.2 million tonnes of nitrogen.

A unexpected jump in new jobs and an even more surprising drop in the unemployment rate helped stabilize Wall Street and slow the decline in emerging stock markets yesterday.

A surprising drop in Germany's most closely watched economic indicator, the IFO Institute's monthly survey of business confidence, raised new doubts about Europe's biggest economy and pushed the euro to its lowest level against the dollar in three months.

Technology stocks clicked into rally mode on a view that June's surprising drop in the core Producer Price Index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, could take pressure off the Fed to keep fighting inflation.

In addition, there was also a welcome and rather surprising drop in the unemployment rate from 9.0% in October, to 8.6% in November, down from its peak of 10.1% to its lowest level in 30 months.

The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.

Goldman suffered a surprising drop-off in equity trading revenue, of 63percentt from the previous quarter, because of a series of bad investment decisions.

He would like also not to live there but still to call it his home Where he could drop in, surprising himself hard at work in his study Or, having been called away, finding the place shrieking his absence.

The surprising drop was reported in two surveys, one by the American Petroleum Institute, released late Tuesday, and one by the United States Energy Information Administration, released yesterday.

Cash flow, after a surprising drop last quarter, rebounded.