Sentence examples for worst drop from inspiring English sources

On Friday, the Dow plunged 208 points, its worst drop in six weeks.

In Israel, shares fell 7 percent on Sunday, the worst drop since 2000.

This would be the worst drop since 1989, when a pilots' strike constricted travel.

While slow, that was a substantial improvement from the 3.8 percent contraction reported in January 2009, which was the worst drop in 27 years.

Figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) showed numbers were down 3.8 per cent in the last quarter of the year, the worst drop since August 2012.

The rouble lost 10% of its value against the dollar, the worst drop since it was knocked off its exchange-rate peg in 1998.

He is also – and this is official – the worst drop-goal exponent ever with a strike rate of 16 per cent.

The wild ride continued early Monday, when spot silver suffered one of its worst drops on record, falling 12% in 11 minutes at its most severe.

Police tactics were "grossly negligent" at best, the report found, and outrageous at worst: "Dropping a bomb on an occupied rowhouse was unconscionable".

Most of us are left to fall back on our own resources and subsidise our own work again, meaning that those without wealthy parents are back to being part-timers at best, or at worst dropping out altogether in order to make ends meet.

Coming on a day that the Dow Jones average had one of its worst drops in history, Mr. Schieffer tried something other moderators had failed to do this fall: get the two candidates to enumerate which proposals they would specifically have to postpone or cut in the face of an economic environment that has changed drastically since they first drew up their plans.