The overall price decline was not as steep as the double-digit drops of two or three years ago.

I don't think there's ever, in history, been a city with three consecutive years of double-digit drops in crime statistics.

We can't continue to have double-digit drops year after year.

In Sunday's loss to Green Bay, Harrington was bedeviled by double-digit drops by Lions receivers.

Now it foresees double-digit drops in the last quarter of 2001 and the first quarter of 2002, compared with the quarters a year earlier.

"All over, there were double-digit drops in sales," said Chris McEvoy, editor in chief of Sporting Goods Business.

It was the first time since World War II that a consecutive double-digit drop was recorded citywide.

The company is expecting another double-digit drop in mainframe sales again this year.

Some reported double-digit drops in earnings yesterday.

And instead of closing prices, they often use asking prices that are adjusted for the double-digit drops that often occur during negotiations.