When sources of funding are exhausted, the bubble bursts and prices decline precipitously.

We also watch, however, as many patients decline precipitously.

What are the forces that have caused the American middle class, once the envy of the world, to decline precipitously?

Child mortality began to decline precipitously from the turn of the century, and with it, the life-or-death justification for this kind of advice.

But eventually the conventions of romantic comedy take hold, with the humor declining precipitously.

Seabirds are are declining precipitously all across the globe.

The only good news, he said, is that cargo theft at the port has declined precipitously.

Yet, the company's onetime $700 million valuation has declined precipitously.

Horses have declined precipitously from their maximal mid-Tertiary abundance to modern marginality in both place and number.

However, in the absence of both glucose and oxygen, ATP levels declined precipitously, with concomitant massive cytological deterioration.

Russia would have fulfilled the plan even though the nation's standard of living and global competitiveness have declined precipitously.

The western black rhino sub-species, Diceros bicornis longipes, had declined precipitously in the past 20 years largely as a result of poaching.

In Turkey, for instance, US favorability ratings have declined precipitously from 52% in 2000 to 10% in 2011.

Pollinate Energy has provided solar energy to millions of poor Indians at a time when the cost of energy from the sun has declined precipitously.