Sentence examples for the number plunged from inspiring English sources

The number plunged 92 percent in just a year.

The number plunged to 284,157 two years later, Mr. Bardakci said.

Small towns, especially, are seeing far fewer murders: In cities with populations under 10,000, the number plunged by more than 25 percent last year.

There were 36 such attacks in 2008; the number plunged to four in 2009 and to only one in 2010 — actually a man dressed as a woman, according to the United States military.

After reaching a record high of nearly 1.05 million in 2008, the number plunged to about 620,000 in 2010 but started climbing again, topping 757,000 last year, according to federal statistics.

The number plunged to 750,000 in 1998, at the height of the crisis.

Monthly tourist arrivals through June ran as much as 15percentt higher than in 2000, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board said; the numbers plunged by 14percentt in July and 54 percent in August from their levels 12 months before.

"Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis," by Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan, found that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than those of 30 years ago, with the numbers plunging primarily after 2000.

Though more than 2 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2005 -- near the height of the housing boom during relatively good economic times -- that number plunged 71percenttoto 598,000 in 2006, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.

But that number plunged to roughly 4percentt in Russia after President Boris N. Yeltsin liquidated the state monopoly in 1992.

However, this number plunged significantly in some countries.