Example sentences of "[verb] fallen [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 4 | He spent a long time listening , and then said , ‘ You know , George Dionisovich , you 've fallen into to the hands of the Mafia . |
| 5 | By 1980 though , the US contribution had fallen to about one sixth , America 's day of being an oil exporter was long gone and oil dependence on the Middle East had begun . |
| 6 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 7 | The team found that the supply of fresh water for all purposes in Baghdad had fallen to between 5 and 20 litres per person per day compared with 500 litres before the war , and that diarrhoeal diseases among children had quadrupled . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , it was reported that the number of Palestinians in Kuwait had fallen to between 150,000 and 200,000 ( half the number resident before the Iraqi invasion ) following a mass exodus prompted by fears of continued harassment [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ] . |
| 9 | It 's bottomed out now , but it 's fallen by about fifty or sixty in the last eight months . |
| 10 | No more : City rents have nearly halved from a £70 per sq ft peak in 1987 and capital values have fallen by at least 30 per cent . |