Sentences with phrase «precipitous increase»

The multiple birth rate's precipitous increase since 1980 looks pretty strange at first, but there's clear science behind it.

Not exact matches

Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

But paradoxically, as the nation moved to integrate and increase the quality of opportunities available to African - American students, Dunbar saw a precipitous decline.

«For example,» the authors wrote, «after the release of the 1985 version of the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians, new Dalmatian registrations increased 6.2-fold, from 6,880 registrations in 1985 to 42,816 registrations in 1993, followed by a precipitous fall to 4,652 registrations 6 years later.»

«Drastic, precipitous and, especially, unilateral steps to delay the putative greenhouse impacts can cost jobs and prosperity and increase the human costs of global poverty, without being effective.

Its precipitous price increase this year seems to coincide with wide - ranging statements, including the digital asset's threat or lack thereof.