There was also a drop in the number of people on long-term unemployment assistance.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The violence, including an unsolved murder of a Punjabi accounting graduate, has caused a drop in the number of young Indians coming to study in Australia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

(SAYING) Each year,he says there is a drop in the harvest.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Even though the recession has forced a drop in the amount it costs to buy commercials in the big game for just the second time in history, they are still the most expensive on television.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

But Chinese exports fell almost 3% in December from a year earlier - the sharpest drop in at least 10 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

He points to a big drop in the number of planned job cuts announced by employers over the past six months.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

An increasing number of countries are reporting a drop of more than fifty percent in malaria deaths, the report says.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

But other experts offered technical explanations of how the wording was not meant to hide a drop in temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

One cold January morning in nineteen eighty-eight, library workers found a small,almost frozen kitten in the book drop.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Experts say even a two percent drop in the body's water supply can cause signs of dehydration.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

The result is a five to twenty percent drop in the amount of oxygen in the blood.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

"Are there people in the world with the foolishness to die because leaves drop off a vine?

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Another report on Thursday showed a small drop in the number of newly jobless workers last week.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

A book drop is the small metal door in the wall of the building where people can return books when the library is closed.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

But the decision to drop the Bush missile-defense plan brought a mixed reaction in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

They found a drop of more than thirty-five percent worldwide in the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Experts said there was still no experimental evidence to prove that the drop in crime was a direct result of efforts to clean up city neighborhoods.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

They discovered a drop in pressure in the fuel cells that supplied electricity.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

The evaporation process creates a drop in temperature of several degrees.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Analysts arguing against an increase say a larger troop presence would lead to a drop in support from the Afghan people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But many experts say Mr.Saakashvili's drop in popularity over the years indicates a strong disillusionment with the achievements of the Rose Revolution.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

If,instead,the South dissects the North's motives, it will in his words "drop a bomb" on inter-Korean relations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07