His weight had begun to drop in the last few months.

Drug shipments are down and will drop further in the next few months.

His sales dropped by about 20 percent in the last 18 months, and he cut his staff to 6 from 15.

And the unemployment rate has dropped about 1.5 percentage points in the past 18 months, to just over 6 percent.

The legal problems were settled and criminal charges dropped in the following months.

Intel shares have dropped 18 percent in the last six months, to $19.06.

The unemployment rate should drop in the coming months, perhaps sharply.

Homers dropped more in the early months of 1997, 2001 and 2002 than they have so far this year.

The cost of computers has dropped slightly in the last few months.

That number dropped to less than 300 in the ten months following the conflict.