precipitous drop

collocation in English

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precipitous
adjective
uk
/prɪˈsɪp.ɪ.təs/us
/priːˈsɪp.ə.t̬əs/
If a slope is precipitous, it is ...
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drop
noun
uk
/drɒp/us
/drɑːp/
a small round-shaped amount ...
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The superficial implication of aprecipitousdropin stillbirth rate at higher age is meaningless.
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Since then, there has been aprecipitousdropin prices.
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Those numbers indicate not a decline, but aprecipitousdropin the numbers of people becoming architects, this in a decade of great economic prosperity and construction activity.
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The cause for theprecipitousdropwas classic oversupply.
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Theprecipitousdropin commodity prices and aid in the 1980s generated the scholarly response that a reversal of fortune, so to speak, should engender a reversal in politics.
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As a result, aprecipitousdropin the recovery rate of gold occurred.
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I am greatly concerned, as are many of my constituents, in particular by theprecipitousdropin the number of new houses under construction.
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The bath is heavily overgrown and can only be visited by a precarious path through foliage over aprecipitousdrop.
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The sudden offering of many farms for sale in the mid-1860s resulted in aprecipitousdropin farm prices.
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The true summit, only about a metre higher, lies just to the north across aprecipitousdrop.
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South is aprecipitousdropdown to a low forested valley and east a drop down into a large cemetery.
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Several theories for theprecipitousdropin the crab population have been proposed, including overfishing, warmer waters, and increased fish predation.
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Several theories for theprecipitousdropin the crab population have been proposed including overfishing, warmer waters, and increased fish predation.
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There was aprecipitousdropin the interior population relative to the coast, and villages became slightly smaller and more widely scattered.
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However, there is aprecipitousdropin calcification rate with aragonite saturation state dropping below 380%, with a three-fold decrease in calcification accompanying a drop to 98% saturation.
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