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But he said it is too early to say whether the drop in global consumer demand has reached bottom.

In his design, moisture-laden air enters the system and is cooled by a drop in pressure behind the wind turbine blades, says Whisson.

On September 29 heavy rains and a change in the wind direction brought a sharp drop in the Air Pollution Index in Borneo and Malaysia.

It was great here my family and I played on our Wii until midnight and then we watched the ball drop in New York City on our T. V.

It's just a drop in the bucket. That car has more scratches on it than I can count.

an increase in the rate caused an inflow of funds from abroad and a drop in the rate caused a flow of funds out of the country.

Retirement usually brings with it a massive drop in income.

I did a lot of work today, but I have so much to do it was just a drop in the bucket.

Woman: Hello, James, do sit down. Right, as you know, our Nottingham centre has had a significant drop in income over the last few months.

Drop in to see me the next time you are in London.

After a week after a sharp drop in the price of steel, steel market adjusting to last trend, However, the cost of supporting effect.

RALPH HARRIS: (laughs) Thatcher's office came on and said could she come and drop in to see him.

I will say if I bring her to the U. S. she will see a very significant drop in living standard.

There was no such drop in two neighboring areas, and researchers believe it's a clear sign the ban was responsible.

The amount of money Mr. Howell spent on a new Rolls-Royce was just a drop in the bucket compared to his annual salary.

Don't just drop in a solution or technology; instead, carefully plan and evaluate the consequences of every decision you make.

Drop in reach size: The difference between the reach size of an object and the reach size of a child of that object.

Jonas blames the drop in employment and sales on the recession as well as cheaper foreign imports that he said have undercut his business.

Why don't you just drop in there and hand him the receipt as if it were nothing unusual.

So far, those supply chains seem to be intact, partly helped by the sharp drop in the price of oil.

Studies noting the sex of babies conceived in New York during the week of the attacks found a drop in the ratio of males to females.

Your "big numbers" here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base.

"The recent drop in production is a sort of psychological panic, " he said.

But the sharp drop in February compared with a year ago was unexpected; economists had been predicting little change.

The divorce rate is beginning to level off and probably will begin to drop in the next year or two .

Play around with a bunch of your newly installed jailbreak apps and see if you see a huge drop in the amount of memory used.

I'd like to buy a new ear, but I'm afraid what I have saved is just a drop in the bucket. I'll have to save much more money.

"You are! " He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass. "How you ever get anything done is beyond me. "

A drop in the President's tone, a shift of his eyes to Hopkins, told Pug he was now overstaying his time.

And I think we're finally going to see a drop in production from some as storage space gets increasingly tight.

The drop in rates was led by a build up in capacity among the various vessel class sizes, especially for Capesize vessels.

Acura has only five models which, considering the model lineup of the other carmakers, is nothing but just a drop in the bucket.

But this increased time at the office was more than offset by a drop in time devoted to mundane chores.

But such a severe drop in income, at a time of reduced job opportunities elsewhere, limited the appeal of such offers.

In the second quarter of 2009 sales at stores open at least a year declined 8% on top of a 10% drop in the year-earlier period.

All I had to do was watch a kid for a few minutes, then drop in a little idea about a different approach.

Hays, Britain's biggest recruitment firm, suffered a 43% drop in annual profits but said the British jobs market was stabilising.

A sudden drop in cooling water levels when a pump ran out of fuel had fully exposed the fuel rods for a time, an official said.

My knowledge in the field is nothing but a drop in the bucket.

I got it as a free sample and I would not pay 20 dollars for it due to the huge drop in tension.

He said the figures which for the first time in 16 months showed a slight drop in unemployment could be the light at the end of the tunnel.

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

It's seeking to "signal to the market that banks are sound even with a significant drop in prices, " he said.

Toyota is the largest automaker in the world - when auto sales drop this much, they're bound to see a drop in profits.

Some technical and sentiment indicators auger for a near-term drop in stocks, but investors remain optimistic over the long haul.

But since the early 1990s, a steady flow of unco-ordinated sales from central banks contributed to a relentless drop in gold prices.

And there has been a similar drop in the last five years in the number of AIDS-related deaths.

A company statement said the move led to an immediate 80 percent drop in postings to that section.

But try telling the British or American publics that they might have to accept a 20 per cent drop in living standards.

Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket.

U. S. stocks fell as worries about fiscal turmoil in Europe and a drop in technology stocks offset positive reports on the U. S. economy.

First love is like snow in the air when it is very beautiful, but a drop in the palm of your hand is nothing.

The drop in first-quarter earnings isn't a surprise, with oil prices down about 55% from where they were a year ago.

Some of the drop in commodities no doubt comes from investors unwinding positions after a sharp runup in prices.

In a what-if scenario run for The Wall Street Journal, IHS Global Insight examined the likely effects of a further sharp drop in the dollar.

And with a somewhat different position in the standings, do Juventus run the risk of a drop in concentration?

Over the past few days, we have witnessed a startling drop in the stock market -- much of it driven by uncertainty and fear.

The index is usually inversely correlated to the S&P 500, and a rise in the VIX typically means a drop in the stock market.

Sure. I mean they do often pop by to put it in context for themselves. They will drop in to see what is going on and have a little giggle.

I certainly don't think your portfolio would thank you if you took it through a replay of that October-to-October drop in Chinese stocks.

After sending off your application, all that you can do is to wait patiently for luck to drop in.

As they re-appear, dig two more, run across the top and dig next to the short ladder. Drop in and collect the gold.

Coach said the drop in transaction sizes had been "unexpected" .

Yancy: You know that the World Heart Federation has an international goal to see a drop in death due to heart disease by 2020.

Domestic deposits were down in four of the first six months of the year, including a particularly steep drop in June.

Print runs of no doubt caused a significant drop in the rollers business card printing and membership card making enterprise attention.

However, he is troubled that much of the drop in mortality recorded is the result of changes in the figures for a mere half-dozen countries.

The slow flow of fat drop in milk was the appearance of its dynamics.

When a woman's hormones drop in a short timespan, it's fairly obvious to her that they're changing .

The police crackdown on speeding is just a drop in the ocean in solving Taiwan's traffic problems.

B: Hello, Lucy. I hadn't seen you for such a long time that I thought I'd just drop in for a little chat.

The manager will drop in at your house at a time of his convenience .

Holding the Nexus One with an Apple approved fingertip grip, not touching the body of the phone, we saw no appreciable drop in signal.

That's just a drop in the bucket. I need too much to get back on my feet.

The problem seems to be drop in voltage as the load is increased.

As soon as we started to see that drop [in mailings] we started to pour in the money.

Scientists have found a place that makes Earth's supplies look like drop in a bucket.

By flowing over these tubes. the steam is caused to transmit some of its heat to the liquid . and a rapid drop in temperature occurs.

Sensing a drop in its potassium concentration, the cell reacts by forming a multi-protein complex known as an inflammasome.

So the best news of the week, buried under all the headlines about falling bank share prices, was the sharp drop in the price of oil.

The soft of US dollar led to an overall drop in the cost of living in 19 American cities compared to other major cities around the globe.

Whatever a man like Hurstwood could be in Chicago, it is very evident that he would be but an inconspicuous drop in an ocean like New York.

Chinese silver investors suffered big losses over the drop in international silver prices. After China's currency climbed against the U.

Condensate can form, however, on the surface with a drop in temperature.

As the southern gold deposits were depleted, there was a corresponding drop in the number of Chinese miners in these areas.

Bring some vegetable stock to the boil, drop in the sliced turnip and boil for a while, remove to a soup boil.

To buy an expensive car is not just a drop in the bucket for her.

The latest report also shows there has been a significant drop in the number of new HIV infections.

LCD makers normally adjust their factory-utilization rates around this time of the year, often resulting in a drop in output.

Given the supportive factors, 'the question then is how far could yields drop in the bond market, ' he said.

Some already see signs of that happening: there was a small drop in Shanghai inventories in the past week.

Then in July there was an unexplained drop in reported bank deposits to the tune of US$176bn, adding more grist to the rumour mill.

Women's brains, which are smaller on average than those of men, have experienced an equivalent drop in size.

Inventory declines often go with a drop in imports, and the fourth quarter was no exception.

You can make a big deal of every late arrival, and say in the most schoolmasterly fashion "so kind of you to drop in" or similar.

Every city included in the survey experienced a drop in prices from a year earlier, a trend that has extended for five months.

Colin Shevills, director of Balance, a peer support charity for alcohol abusers, said the overall drop in teenage drinking was encouraging.

Amid Monday's selloff, the Brazilian real had its biggest one-day drop in more than a year, though it rebounded Tuesday.

The drop in claims, at least temporarily, reverses a trend of disappointing jobs reports that had sent stocks lower in recent weeks.

But a bigger drop in prices might change lawmakers' minds and hasten an agreement, as it would expose the costs of dithering.

Higher demand for graduates tends to result in corruption in entrance requirements or a drop in standards, rather than better teaching.

freshwater from a burst glacial lake to a rapid drop in air temperatures by a few degrees Celsius along North America's East Coast.

That means any falloff in export orders is usually accompanied by a drop in demand for imports.

My last boss said the sharp drop in market demand reduced orders, they had to cut the cost through downsize.

At such levels of profitability, there would have to be a huge drop in demand before miners needed to moderate their capex.

Turn the clocks back to early 2008 and a 20 percent drop in new car sales would be enough to get most CEOs fired.

Analysts said the drop in Alibaba. com's shares Tuesday was moderate, considering the level of the management shake-up.

Growth in China's consumer price index continued to drop in August. The National Bureau of Statistics said the August rate was 4. 9 percent.

There has been a cut in jobs in the building industry and the Labor Department report also shows a drop in factory jobs.

He refused to consider himself retired and would drop in at the shipyard several weeks a week.

If we drop in and out of relationships, we don't stick around long enough to allow these good things to happen.

In April the FAO's food index registered its first drop in 15 months and officials said prices appeared to be "reaching a peak" .

Here is another example. Joe donated $20 to help people in Haiti after the earthquake, even though $20 was just a drop in the bucket.

The message that magazines send out to females around the world affects them negatively, causing a drop in self-esteem and self-worth.

But Ms. Pappafava-Ray has noticed a slowing in orders recently-she isn't sure whether it's just a summer lull or a real drop in demand.

If the bars do not drop in easily the swivel clamps may not be aligned properly and need to be adjusted.

Coal prices have jumped to their highest in a year helped by a drop in Chinese domestic production, which is forcing the country to import.

The model of Android distribution also will cause smartphone prices to drop in the next two years, Gartner analysts said.

Panic ensued and quickly spread around the world as stock market indices went down in tandem with the 30 percent drop in the S&P 500.

The result would be a steep drop in investment in an economy largely dependent on capital spending to power its continued growth.

Would you please drop in at the post office on your way home and send off this book for me? --Sure. I'd be glad to. --Thanks a lot.

Neil Williams from the association said he was concerned that drinkers would notice a drop in quality.

Still, banking executives said they did not think the margin calls on their own were leading to the drop in stock prices.

A federal officer voiced the opinion that the wobbly economy that the US currently is in could be a reason for the drop in applicants.

He says there's been a drop in cattle operations in key Corn Belt states including Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska.

"It is conceivable that this drop in methane contributed to the Younger Dryas cooling episode, " says Smith.

JOHN DEASY: "The recession has had an enormous impact on the state budget and we have had a huge drop in funding. "

Even though China would suffer from any drop in exports as a result of a US slowdown, the fall-out should be manageable.

My dear wife Caroline and I are pleased to see them, if they like to drop in on us.

However, the number declined in the following years due to a drop in demand, which fell to only 20 million in 2000, said the report.

The World Health Organization says there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths among children under age five.

The drop in Washington's reliance on Riyadh's oil is unlikely to alter dramatically their relationship, at least in the short term.

In most Asian economies falling domestic demand was more important than the drop in net exports in explaining the collapse in GDP growth.

There could be a 3-5% drop in the dollar over the next couple of weeks, and into levels that jeopardize the global outlook.

eg. After a while, the drop-in stopped appearing at all, but he would sometimes come around to give the professor advice.

Over the past decade, authorities stepped up monitoring and the enforcement of laws, leading to a significant drop in the rate of clearance.

But the peanut plan also caused a drop in blood fats called triglycerides and did not decrease HDL, the "good" cholesterol.

Scientists predict that if people keep overfishing, the next 50 years will see that kind of drop in most other kinds of fish as well.

At least 18 people have died in Ukraine and 10 in Poland after heavy snow fall and a sudden drop in temperatures across east Europe.

But that did not stop France's main commercial station, TF1, from suffering a 27% drop in advertising in the first three months of the year.

When you drop in for a visit after a long day at work, your father is unsteady as he makes you a cup of tea and knocks the cup to the floor.

What I have done is just a drop in the bucket.

This is like a drop in the ocean when compared with the stimulus package, which is to be spent in the next couple of years.

The slower rate of warming in the past decade might be due to a 10 percent drop in stratospheric water. Cause: unknown.

Such a low figure, coupled with lower prices, would mean a big drop in income for the growers, who want at least 10, 000kg a hectare.

For lower-cost housing, the run-up in prices was never as pronounced, analysts say, and the drop in demand has been less dramatic.

That's just before the last glacial maximum---a period when there was a sudden drop in temperature and glaciers advanced.

Tectonic forces uplifting the land and a drop in sea level left the Caspian landlocked more than 5 million years ago.

It caused Goldman some limited pain, in the light of its significant drop in second-quarter earnings earlier this week.

and Citigroup posted a 57% drop in quarterly profits and said parts of the debt market might not recover soon.

Some women even enjoy a heightened libido just before their period, thanks to a drop in estrogen and a rise in testosterone.

The main reason for the rise of the people's living standard isn't so much an increase in family incomes as a drop in prices.

The company is experiencing a decrease in sales volume affected by the economic slowdown and the dramatic drop in steel prices.

No doubt you've already noticed, whenever you run your AC in your vehicle, there's a significant drop in fuel efficiency.

He took a drop in salary in order to help the firm.

It may also reflect expectations that inflation will be lower in the long term than in the short term, producing an eventual drop in yields.

Such a dramatic drop in national house prices this year is possible, but not yet probable.

The forward voltage drop in the on-state is only a few volts(typically 1 to 3 V depending on the device blocking voltage rating).

The accessible location will make it easy for operators to drop in, collect up-to-date materials and speak to staff about their needs.

Analysts say the selling of derivatives, as much as any other factor, exacerbated the drop in share prices early this week.

It's not a good idea to just drop in from the sky like a prophet, promise a lot of things and leave when the funding runs out.

it was similar to the book's topic selection, release cycle becoming shorter and shorter, the sharp drop in average set of type.

The correlation is considered to be an accurate method for the calculation of pressure drop in the pneumatic transport of solids.

To hear that great and noble man's name upon your lips is like finding a dew-drop in a cesspool.

Not surprisingly, the response has been a steep drop in food production and widening food scarcity.

If the main culprit was the drop in global demand, as most economists believe, trade should recover smartly when demand picks up.

The drop in sales at Honda shows the price it has had to pay for the spate of strikes at affiliated suppliers during the past two months.

'The drop in US oil demand dwarfs the increase in oil demand from China, ' he said.

The bank also offset a sharp drop in fixed-income results with strong performances from equities and other businesses.

Drop in a bit of oil and add in some dumplings.

Groovy's collect method is rather slick, by the way: it allows me to drop in a corresponding loop that creates Race instances.

Her tears drop a drop in on the phone, he thought it was a radio noise.

I'll be in my office almost all day next Tuesday. If you run into any problems, please drop in.

Private humanitarian groups, facing a drop in donations, might have to do the same.

What you have gained from the four years' of university education is only a drop in the bucket compared to all there is to learn.

Some shareholders also criticized him for an 85% drop in the stock price.

This paper stresses that the main motor must match system fly wheel torque, and there must be proper speed drop in shearing.

Stay active. A study found that people who bicycled four times a week for 40minutes had a 20percent drop in eye pressure.

A sudden drop in just a month has surprised even the most pessimistic economists.

This was attributable to a drop in both savings and time deposits, which more than offset an increase in demand deposits.

I know this small amount of money is But a drop in the ocean. But at least it can meet your current needs.

First, it estimates the daily drop in equity value of this firm that would be expected if the aggregate market falls more than 2%.

The move by Blackstone emerged yesterday as it reported a drop in quarterly earnings, although they were ahead of analysts' estimates.

"Domestic demand is growing more rapidly than [gross domestic product], and there's been a big drop in the external surplus. "

Last week, Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd. reported a 78% drop in quarterly profit from a year earlier.

Stay active. A study found that people who bicycled four times a week for 40 minutes had a 20 percent drop in eye pressure.

First, there was the brouhaha over the notification system and the drop in traffic.

A drop in the price of a company's bonds is treated as a decline in a liability, producing a gain.

One result was a sharp drop in the price of notebook computers, also known as laptop computers.

Thank you. I was just passing by and I thought I'd drop in and say hello.

"I'll drop in and leave the new address. " I said.

Increased exploration spurred by high oil prices paired with that drop in demand led to two decades of low oil prices.

Oh! I just drop in on him for a chat.

One influence may have been a drop in solar energy.

The first thing we see is a drop in quality and testing effort. Also the command and control way of managing steps right back in.

But this decline, she said, was much less than the 23 percent drop in total U. S. exports to the world.

Given the drop in equities and bond yields, the only explanation for the divergent move in the currency market is risk aversion.

Loss due to stop and drop in production of enterprises is an important part of earthquake indirect loss.

But figures showed this was not the case, and the biggest drop in deaths was among younger women who found lumps themselves.

It was the first increase since last July. But fueling that increase was a drop in prices.

And with such a big drop in net worth, the urgency of regaining lost ground could hardly be greater.

The drop in soybean complex futures looks to have put biodiesel margins back in the black.

Excluding pretax charges of $170 million for restructuring and a drop in value for one of its trademarks, it earned $1. 10 per share.

As long as you keep at what you are striving after, the Goddess of Luck will drop in unexpectedly.

A drop in the marriage rate has resulted in a doubling of single-parent households over the past three and a half decades.

He gives a proportion of his monthly income to that charity, but he knows it's only a drop in bucket for them.

Every tenfold increase in a pregnant mother's pesticide exposure meant a more than 5-point drop in her child's IQ at age 7.

As online commentators and rivals have gleefully pointed out, News Corporation's paywalls have led to a drastic drop in traffic.

On the negative side, other data showed a drop in sales of existing-homes last month and only a small rise in a gauge of future growth.

They forecast a large drop in unemployment over the next two years.

For a millionaire , the cost of a luxury car is a drop in the bucket .

Stack wants to see a dramatic drop in the number of stocks hitting new 52-week lows.

Such a drop in bank shares in the universal, suggests that investors downside risk to economic worries.

An earlier report here incorrectly referred to a 40% drop in deaths.

The fact that Internet use reduces time available for family and friends may account for the drop in well - being, researchers hypothesized.

Gazprom's output fell 34 per cent year on year to its lowest level in a decade in May due to the drop in worldwide demand.

Inevitably, all top U. S. corporate executives feel theimpact and suffer at least some drop in personal effectiveness.

Last week the company posted a 35% drop in first-quarter earnings, hurt by a 58% profit decline in its GE Capital unit.

The book is particularly interesting to read now, as the country struggles with the drop in oil prices during a global economic recession.

The rise in inflation predicted by the model might sound like a reasonable trade for the projected drop in unemployment.

I also hope that you could drop in on me at your convenience. Just call me when you are available.

Feel free to drop in anytime. I'm usually home and I'd love the company.

Assuming that apartment prices drop in September to October, the ministry could also afford to loosen its housing measures a bit.

That announcement might not count as a major surprise since the new chip is a drop-in to existing platforms.

Two stalwarts are still standing between the world's slumping economies and a steep drop in oil prices: China and Saudi Arabia.

In the drop-in centre where I meet her, she looks decidedly out of place next to the dusty, weary figures that are slumped beside her.

So if you want low-carbon flying, drop-in biofuels are the only game in town.

There was a huge drop in resistance as a result of the legal shift.

Afterwards, afterwards, one day, incredibly true of drop down a small sparrow from the tree, drop in I is like the bird's nest similar hair.

Green as suspension overhead every bit of bottle, a drop in decay clean.

They also theorized that the drop in CRP may have been due to antioxidants present in whole grains but lacking in refined ones.

They found a spike coinciding with a drop in mammoth numbers some 15, 000 years ago.

But figures released on Tuesday showed a drop in the country's exports for a sixth successive month, a concern in a trade-dependent economy.

The power of the sea contain a small drop in each, I was a small drop of water, I want seven-color glory to return the love of the sun.

We are happy to see the deficit drop in January but it is not representative of the true picture.

Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink.

"This kind of drop in bonuses would be unthinkable in normal times, " said Naoki Murakami, chief economist at Monex Securities.

If you exercise to exhaustion, you may experience a temporary change in hormone levels and a drop in sperm quality.

But pulling down inflation has come at the cost of a steeper than expected drop in growth.

Looking around Jack realizes with dismay that he is only a drop in a bucket.

i would drop in for a chat with you . we haven ' t seen each other lately.

But Wang is not the only graduate who has dared to just "drop in" .

The seasonal front is bringing rain and a large drop in temperatures as well.

Dozens of people have sued the company blaming faulty electronics for crashes or causing a drop in resale value of their Toyota vehicles.

This could result in serious labor shortages, the withdrawal of foreign companies, and a drop in university candidates.

Technology executives said such an extreme drop in cost would be "impossible" .

Disastrous was the way one trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange described the drop in US shares on Thursday.

Adding to the drop in exports was the fact that income from overseas investments fell nearly 32%.

Efforts will be made to boost the U. S. market to make up for the "sharp drop" in 2009, Barral said.

The company cut 8% of its global workforce of 3500 in January, citing a drop in consumer spending and magazine advertising.