With a sales drop of 60%, seldom has any model experienced a more precipitous fall.

But this season has brought such a precipitous fall from grace that Richter, 26, can hardly made sense of it.

Such a situation could develop this year, he said, leading to a new, precipitous fall in crude oil prices.

The little I'd heard of him since resigning my post suggested a rapid and precipitous fall.

But the precipitous fall of a proud symbol rankles all the same.

But managing measured change is profoundly more desirable than suffering a precipitous fall.

The market in Monaco has stabilized since a precipitous fall several years ago, but homes tend to take a while to sell.

Cardenas suffered a precipitous fall to third place, from which he never fully recovered.

But others note that the recovery comes after a precipitous fall and that rental rates do not approach the levels of the late 1980's.

On our right was the precipitous fall to the City's streets.