Sentence examples for the precipitous increase from inspiring English sources

Hiding in the shadow of the opioid epidemic is another troubling public health crisis, the precipitous increase in people whose liver is infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV).

In 2008 the American Association of Wine Economists published The Sideways Effect: A Test for Changes in the Demand for Merlot and Pinot Noir Wines, establishing with terrifyingly complex equations the "precipitous" increase in pinot noir sales.

The C-section rate continued to climb after the precipitous increase between 1965 and 1987, reaching an all-time high in 2009 of almost 33percentt.

The country has seen a precipitous increase in reported syphilis cases over the past two decades, particularly in Guangdong Province, the largest province in South China [ 6, 7].

Every hour counts Schools in areas of displacement have faced a precipitous increase in the number of students since the beginning of the current crisis.

"No other country has seen such a precipitous increase in reported syphilis cases in the penicillin era," wrote the co-authors, who are from American, Chinese and British medical schools.

Synaptic activation as a result of cortical stimulation can also first be detected in these interneurons near the end of the second postnatal week [30], the same time period in which we see a precipitous increase in PNN expression.

The dean, Freddye L. Hill, called that "a precipitous increase".

For example, Williams 30 showed in a meta-analysis that there was a precipitous increase in relative risk for CVD in the lowest quartile of cardiorespiratory fitness.

In rats of both sexes the dose dependence of the hepatotoxic response was complex, possessing a threshold level, a region of precipitous increase, and a plateau, where larger doses were ineffective in increasing hepatotoxicity.

Rents may not have doubled, but they have seen a precipitous increase.