Pre-tax profits dropped by 37 per cent.

税前利润减少了37%。

Grain output dropped by five per cent.

粮食减产5％。

The interest rate dropped by one per cent.

利率下浮一个百分点。

I dropped by at his house on my way home, but he was not in.

我回家时顺路去找了一下他，可是他不在。

Supplies were dropped by parachute.

补给品由降落伞空投。

It was not dropped by the publisher.

它没有被出版商丢到一边。

The consumer prices dropped by 0.8 percent.

居民消费价格同比下降0.8%.

Our occupancy rate has dropped by 40 percent.

我们的客房入住率下降了40%。

Airline passenger volume has dropped by 20 percent.

航空客运量已经下降了20%。

In the North-East, sales of new homes dropped by 39%.

东北地区的一手房销量则环比下降了39%。