Example sentences of "[vb past] fallen [prep] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 2 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 3 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 4 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 5 | The Financial Times of June 28 estimated that manufacturing output in eastern Germany had fallen by about two-thirds since the first half of 1990 . |
| 6 | East Glasgow 's population had fallen from about 100,000 in 1961 to 45,000 in 1976 . |