Sentence examples for was so precipitous from inspiring English sources

But the fall was so precipitous that some economists questioned the reliability of the data.

He added that the decline was so precipitous that it had to reflect weaker demand for housing, and not just regulatory restrictions on credit.

The decline of the nation's major industrial cities over the past half-century was so precipitous and so devastating it fostered the idea that they were, for the most part, useless -- unworthy of any significant investment.

The initial sell-off on Monday was so precipitous that Russia's main stock exchange, the Russian Trading System, or R.T.S., suspended trading of Yukos shares for an hour at noon, and another exchange, known as the Micex, suspended Yukos trading altogether.

The plunge was so precipitous that it destroyed several hedge funds that had bet oil would just keep soaring.

Some of the mountain slopes are so precipitous that they are bare of trees.

The fall has been so precipitous that China's financial regulator has said it will investigate suspected market manipulation.

But would the drop have been so precipitous that McGrady, finally on the grandest stage after continual postseason failure, would be a last-resort substitute?

"What had been a pretty precipitous decline in US production doesn't look like it's going to be so precipitous anymore," Glickman said.

In early scenes children splash in gentle wavelets, but no time is wasted getting into mountainous breakers in Hawaii, where walls of water are so precipitous and their surges so powerful that surfers must be towed into position by Jet Ski.

Factor in the current slow growth of the world economy and the normal price drops to the bottom of that range.That the recent fall in prices has been so precipitous merely confirms that, for the past 25 years, oil has been anything but a normal commodity.