Example sentences of "[is] down by " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE London stock market is down by about 8 per cent from this year 's peak . |
| 2 | Five years ago 440,000 young people went to a pub once a day ; the number is down by 150,000 . |
| 3 | Capital employed is down by nearly 6% and turnover by 5% on the January 1987 figures ( see table 1 ) . |
| 4 | And Cymbeline — bless her heart — is down by the fence , still busy making tea for the workers . |
| 5 | The old part of the village , where the church stands , is down by the heel , or hoof of clorin . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , the company is persuading people to take just one paper napkin instead of the traditional handful ( usage is down by 40 per cent at one US example ) and asking them to help themselves to just as many vegetables as they think they 'll realistically eat . |
| 7 | more companies are in receivership and when manufacturing investment is down by 19 per cent. , how can the Government justify taking such a listless attitude to the needs of British industry ? |
| 8 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
| 9 | And robbery is down by twenty-four per cent . |
| 10 | Catches have fallen from 36,000 tonnes in 1988 to 28,000 tonnes in 1992 and the number of fish is down by two-thirds . |
| 11 | The fishermen 's quarter is down by the quayside , along with some of the best seafood restaurants . |
| 12 | They have been successful … the crime rate in the city is down by five hundred offences a month … there are only one or two displays now a week … but they do still happen . |
| 13 | The area of oilseed rape grown this year is believed to be less than half that for 1992 and the area of potatoes ( 7,500 hectares ) is down by 30pc . |
| 14 | At Sainsburys whole fresh salmon is even lower at £1.98 ; smoked salmon is down by £1 to £5.85 for 8 oz . |
| 15 | And then the other one is down by the , that one 's still there where you pull in by Rayners is that one still there ? |
| 16 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 17 | Over the years he has appeared in The Stone Boy , The Outsiders , Rumblefish , The Cotton Club , Paradise Alley and , most memorably , as the down-and-out DJ in Jim Jarmusch 's Down By Law and the jinked hobo in Hector Babenco 's Ironweed . |
| 18 | Oh that 's down by the dock ? |
| 19 | Er what do you think about this erm this leaf stem sculpture that all the fuss is about you know the one that 's down by er Marks and Spencers ? |
| 20 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 21 | But you know the other day we were talking about that tulip thing that 's down by erm Marks and Sparks ? |