Example sentences of "[vb past] fall [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 2 | The figures showed that in 1981-91 the area of vegetables grown in England and Wales fell by 10 per cent but the area treated with pesticides increased by 40 per cent ; the volume used fell by 10 per cent , as pesticides became less bulky . |
| 3 | The material in the folder seemed to fall into three basic categories : notes , bits of descriptive prose , and poems . |
| 4 | A disabled person living in physically unsuitable housing would therefore assume that there was no point in registering on the waiting list , unless they happened to fall into one of the categories mentioned . |
| 5 | Although the budget for 1992 was still in preparation , the Economy Ministry had already announced public-sector salary increases for 1992 of 6 per cent ( with inflation anticipated to fall to 10-12 per cent ) . |
| 6 | The data collected fell into two categories : those related to operations management and those related to R&D project management . |
| 7 | The haemoglobin concentration continued to fall for two days after his admission , reaching a nadir of 61 g/l . |
| 8 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 9 | He had fallen between two sharp jagged-edge boulders and the angry tide had battered his body between them . |
| 10 | The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new . |
| 11 | And there was a picture who had fallen off one of the lorries in Bosnia erm one of the refugee lorries and was running along trying to catch up with her parents . |
| 12 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 13 | Responsibility for disposing of this fleet , which Boeing employees had nicknamed ‘ The Aluminium Cloud ’ , had fallen to one of the company 's most experienced salesmen , R.Q Wilson — a tall , cadaverous man whose Brooks Brothers suits , and the ostentatious flashes of gold at his wrist , cuff and spectacle-rims actually belied a distinctly English politesse and gentility . |
| 14 | Inflation for the system as a whole , which had fallen to 4 per cent a year in the first half of 1972 , rose to an annual rate of 7 per cent in the first half of 1973 . |
| 15 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 16 | Provisional figures show that by December 1991 the number had fallen to 108,982 , a reduction of 41 per cent . |
| 17 | But by 1980 , ‘ non-manual births ’ remained almost the same — 226,000 ; ‘ manual ’ births had fallen to 333,000 — a ratio of 1 : 1.5 . |
| 18 | By January this year the ratio had fallen to 17.2 pupils per teacher . |
| 19 | In 1973 , net remittances from Yugoslav workers abroad covered about one-quarter of total payments for imports and net interest , but by 1985 this proportion had fallen to 7.2 per cent . |
| 20 | In 1974 there were 8061 employees on the town 's industrial estates ; by 1981 this had fallen to 5337 . |
| 21 | In 1957 the ratio was 10.79 to 1 , but by 1977 it had fallen to 4.97 to 1 . |
| 22 | In England in 1970 , there were 232 hospitals with 59,000 beds , an average of 250 beds per hospital ; in 1976 , the number of hospitals had risen to 275 but the numbers of beds had fallen to 53,000 , an average of under 200 beds per hospital . |
| 23 | One month later , when the subjects were asymptomatic , their reaction time had fallen to 385 ( SD 75 ) ms . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that there were more than 17,000 people employed in the Scottish coal industry in 1984 , but by 1989 that figure had fallen to 3,480 and it will be even smaller now ? |
| 25 | By May 1990 circulation had fallen to 450,000 from a peak of 1,000,000 . |
| 26 | Tall blocks ( five or more storeys ) accounted for 26 per cent of all local authority buildings in 1966 , though by 1970 the figure had fallen to 10 per cent in the aftermath of the Ronan Point disaster in 1968 , in the London Borough of Newham when , following a gas explosion , a structural failure resulted in partial collapse . |
| 27 | The shift from manufacturing to service industries has been even more marked in terms of jobs : in 1950 manufacturing employed 35 per cent of the total in civil employment but this had fallen to 26 per cent by 1981 ; at the same time , jobs in the service sector rose from 47 per cent to 60 per cent of total employment . |
| 28 | By 1971 , however , the number of house standing committees chaired by southerners had fallen to 38 per cent and to 23 per cent by 1979 ; meanwhile the comparable figures in the Senate were 53 per cent in 1971 and 27 per cent in 1979 . |
| 29 | They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent . |
| 30 | One week later , the p24 antigen had fallen to 80 pg/mL and WB showed reactivity to HIV-1 p24 and gp160 . |