In 2001 and 2002 the unemployment rate dropped.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

In 2003, the rate of reporting had dropped to 47 per cent (Quai, 2004).

Ms. Simi (Samoa) said that Samoa's fertility rate had dropped over the past 10 years.

The UK accepts that its air dropped cluster bombs have a failure rate that is unacceptably high.

As a result of these developments, the overall rate of disbursement against the approved Mission budget dropped.

And if growth decelerates further the annual rate has already dropped from 10 to 7.5 social unrest may increase.

The overall birth rate dropped from 2.28 in 2000, 2.25 in 2001, and 2.28 in 2002, to 2.13 in 2003.

Partly as a result of the damage at Renesas, Toyota s capacity utilization rate dropped to 50 at the beginning of May.

Similarly, the global acute malnutrition rate for children dropped from 21.8 per cent in 2004 to 11.9 per cent in 2005.

The accident rate per 100 million traveled kilometers dropped by 20 from 30,2 to 24,1 between these years, but the total number as well as rate of deaths didn't go down.

The total fertility rate has dropped by 50 per cent, from 6.3 to 3 births per woman over the last two decades.

In 2000, the First Nations infant mortality rate had dropped to 6.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, compared with 5.5 per 1,000 for Canada.

Over the next two years, annual US spending on residential construction roared upward, from 624 billion to 798 billion, the US unemployment rate dropped from 5.7 to 4.6 , and the economy grew at a 3.1 real annual rate.

Fadil's grades dropped.

Sami's jaw dropped.

The interest rate spreads for Italian and Spanish government bonds have dropped dramatically, corporate bond issues have resumed, and a sense of normalcy is slowly pervading the continent.

Further, due largely to improvements in health care, the Arab infant mortality rate dropped from 32 deaths per thousand births in 1970 to 8.6 per thousand in 2000.

Although the rate of violent crime dropped 11 percent in 2008, violent crime in Detroit has not declined as much as the national average from 2007 to 2011.

Prices have dropped recently.

I dropped my keys.

I dropped my keys.

Fadil dropped out of school.

Sami dropped out of college.

In 1860, at the start of the Civil War, the African American population had increased to 4.4 million, but the percentage rate dropped to 14 of the overall population of the country.

That fighter plane dropped a bomb.

That fighter plane dropped a bomb.

Now the other shoe has dropped.

The stock market has dropped today.

Meanwhile, the Nairobi route was dropped.

The under five mortality rate went down from 58 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 42 per 1,000 births in 2001, and dropped further to 31.5 per 1,000 births in 2004.

The Aichi targets call for cutting by half the rate of loss of the planet s natural habitats, including forests, by 2020.

Indeed, with the average household savings rate having dropped recently to below 4 , too many families are in the process of exhausting their cushions of emergency cash, if they have not done so already.

Sami dropped Layla off at the mosque.

Sami dropped Layla off at the mosque.

Dropped in the mud, like the shoe.

Uzbekistan has dropped out of the programme.

Owing to the closure policies and curfews imposed by the occupying Power and the destruction of schools, the success rate of Palestinian students had dropped by 14.5 per cent during the 2002 2003 scholastic year.

Also, whereas in 1998 three quarters of the Roma pupils had dropped out of school, in 2004 only one quarter had dropped out.

The monthly unemployment rate remained at about 6 and 8 percent from December 2007 until September 2008 however, it went up to about 9 percent in October and dropped again in November 2008 to 8 percent.

He dropped his wallet, and now it's mine.

Sami dropped a bomb in the interrogation room.

And TB mortality has dropped more than 40 .

However, the numbers dropped slightly in 1998 1999.

After the birth rate plunged in the 1980s and Spain's population growth rate dropped, the population again trended upward, based initially on the return of many Spaniards who had emigrated to other European countries during the 1970s, and more recently, fuelled by large numbers of immigrants who make up 12 of the population.