precipitous

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precipitously
Without such annuities, a woman's standard of living would drop precipitously after her husbands' death - even if the woman had a pension of her own.
It has been found that when joint accelerations change precipitously, bigger trajectory tracking errors are more likely to occur.
In general, per capita recruitment dropped precipitously through 2002 and was not compensated for by other demographic mechanisms, such as increased survival.
Turnout and partisanship rates for opposition forces were high before, and declined precipitously after, the turn-of-the-century constitutional 27.
The peak price occurred in 1997 through late 1998, after which the prices dropped precipitously.
The average inflation rate dropped precipitously throughout the advanced industrialized world.
If either of these conditions is absent, the frequency drops off precipitously.
As both social capital and civic reorganization theorists expect, ties to individual membership groups have declined precipitously.
When family size drops below 5, however, degrees of freedom for the denominator drop precipitously, reducing power.
In those years, investment in purebred livestock fell precipitously.
Her condition precipitously declined during the next several weeks, as she fell into a deep coma and required a nasogastric tube for nutrition and hydration.
These infants often precipitously deliver before any discussion or plan with the family.
But as political conditions changed and cross-cultural trade grew, competition between groups for access to different types of resources increased precipitously.
Immediately after the minimum inward current was attained, the inward current increased precipitously, at which time the clamp was turned off to avoid oscillation.
Coincident with this first phase of cease-fire and demobilisation of forces (1992-1995), crime climbed precipitously.
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