Overall, this has sparked a recovery in port services following a drastic fall in 2009.

By the 1970s, there was a drastic fall in the number of addicts smoking opium.

Some survived until a drastic fall in prices for flue-cured tobacco after 1927, but then took up whatever employment they could find.

Toshiba attributed its disappointing results to the drastic fall in prices of memory chips from last year.

During the depression of 1873-96, most European countries experienced a drastic fall in prices.

With a drastic fall in the One Nation vote nationally, he lost his seat, polling only 0.2 of a quota.

The half-dozen other owners on the block were faced with a potentially drastic fall in property values.

The plague killed thousands, and many fled the city leading to a drastic fall in the population of the city.

East Germany was yesterday preparing further measures to counter a drastic fall in the value of its currency.

Stocks have suffered a further drastic fall in all areas.