Example sentences of "[vb past] fallen [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 2 | He had fallen between two sharp jagged-edge boulders and the angry tide had battered his body between them . |
| 3 | The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Provisional figures show that by December 1991 the number had fallen to 108,982 , a reduction of 41 per cent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By January this year the ratio had fallen to 17.2 pupils per teacher . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1974 there were 8061 employees on the town 's industrial estates ; by 1981 this had fallen to 5337 . |
| 14 | In 1957 the ratio was 10.79 to 1 , but by 1977 it had fallen to 4.97 to 1 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One month later , when the subjects were asymptomatic , their reaction time had fallen to 385 ( SD 75 ) ms . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | By May 1990 circulation had fallen to 450,000 from a peak of 1,000,000 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One week later , the p24 antigen had fallen to 80 pg/mL and WB showed reactivity to HIV-1 p24 and gp160 . |
| 24 | Twenty-one months after primary HIV-1 infection , his CD4 count had fallen to 416/L ( 28.9% ) and zidovudine 500 mg daily was started . |
| 25 | Figures for 1991 for the South West show the rate had fallen to 12.2 whereas for Northern Ireland it had dropped to 16.5pc . |
| 26 | Unemployment had fallen to six per cent , wages were higher and economic expansion helped to provide housing and unemployment for the refugees from the eastern lands . |
| 27 | Even though its vote was slightly up on that of October 1974 , Labour 's share of the poll had fallen to 36.9 per cent , the worst since 1931 , while the Tories had risen to 43.9 per cent . |
| 28 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 29 | In that year about 21 per cent of all Africa 's earnings from exports were accounted for by payment of principal and interest on debt ; by 1987 the figure had fallen to 14 per cent and was likely to decrease further . |
| 30 | By 1976 this had fallen to 16 per cent where it remained without significant change up to 1986 . |