Example sentences of "[noun pl] have come down " in BNC.

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1 Because our our months have come down to us from all sorts of historical reasons .
2 Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent .
3 Since the initial batch was purchased , machine specifications have improved , costs have come down , and user requirements have changed , diversified , and become more demanding .
4 In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery .
5 On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day .
6 Interest rates have come down again and loan losses are expected to improve .
7 Meanwhile , our base rates have come down from 12% ( they never officially went to the 15% level announced on Black Wednesday ) to 7% and should fall further .
8 Bank base rates have come down too ; most recently on May 25th , when they dropped by 20 basis points to 8.8% .
9 I mean th th they 've done better than anybody than everything else , because as rates have come down , I can go back and see a client and the National Savings has fallen , and the building society 's fallen , but the , the annuity 's still plugging away .
10 The argument runs that annuity rates have come down ( which they have done ) and that , therefore , they will go back up again ( which they might do , or they might go down further ) .
11 Now interest rates have come down , the latest situation is that for a high rate tax payer an instant access bank account pays less than the rate of inflation .
12 Will first time buyers be able to come in again now and actually get things moving , now that the interest rates have come down ?
13 Both wheat and barley spot and new crop prices have come down in consequence .
14 ‘ This is not only a boost for first-time buyers , ’ said Colin Girling , a regional spokesman for the National Association of Estate Agents , ‘ but it is a boost for many second-time buyers , as well , now that house prices have come down so much . ’
15 Prices have come down by between 30% and 50% but dealers are simply not exposing major works which they know will not find a buyer and may become unsaleable as a consequence .
16 CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America .
17 Even though scale requirements have come down and thus open up new possibilities in small markets , the gains will not be great until the assembly plants are backed by world-class support structures .
18 Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today .
19 The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 .
20 Some of the correspondence sent to the Jacobite Court in St Germain-en-Laye has survived , although few original letters have come down to us , and we are heavily reliant on copies and draft translations into French .
21 In addition several verbal sketches have come down to us : William Hazlitt first met Wordsworth in 1798 and recorded this description :
22 and now the er , they 're not paying back , and the houses have come down and so what people are doing , or some people that have bought these houses , they 're just giving the keys back and repossessing the house
23 The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up .
24 Tomkins ' shares have come down , falling from 260p to 220p on the extra shares it will have to issue for this bid .
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