Sentences with phrase «most precipitous drop»

The loss of the wild boar, the white antelope, and the leopard in the last 150 years caused the most precipitous drop in stability yet.

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Smaller roads with hairpin switchbacks over precipitous drops lead off the main highway and up, up, up to tiny, isolated resort villages that contain most of the Olympic venues, of which there are 13.

East Greenbush, Rensselaer County's most populous town, is completing a townwide reassessment this year to avoid the precipitous drop in property values that Guilderland saw in 2017.

Precipitous cliffs drop to sea around most of the island.

In Going Down River on the USS J - Bone of an Ass (2017) two boats - one red tugboat, one made of an enormous floating mandible with a ripped sail - are floating down an acid green river toward a precipitous drop where all will most certainly tumble down and drown.

In this figure it is evident that the observed trend in pressure gradient is almost entirely due to a precipitous drop in the late 1970s, which persisted through most of the 1990s.

«Perhaps the most interesting finding in this poll, aside from the precipitous drop in the number of Independents who believe global warming is a problem, is that the more Americans learn about cap - and - trade, the more they oppose cap - and - trade,» says Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), a longtime skeptic of climate - change warnings.

Combined with high pollution levels and a history of heedless and haphazard policies, the country is witnessing a precipitous drop in this most essential supply.