Example sentences of "fall [prep] almost [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional income fell by almost a fifth , while the region 's foreign debt doubled . |
| 2 | There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third . |
| 3 | But Japan 's reserves have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of 1988 . |
| 4 | Official figures greatly exaggerate the drop in industrial production ( which is said to have fallen by almost a third last year ) . |
| 5 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |
| 6 | On the Leicester Abbey estates , of which 75–80 per cent fell within the shire , rent income in 1408 was nearly a fifth lower than in 1341 , and by 1477 had fallen by almost a third on the 1341 figure , despite the fact that the proportion of income obtained from rent as opposed to production had risen . |