Example sentences of "a fall in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An 82-year-old retired commercial traveller died on February 13 after a fall in North Tees General Hospital , an inquest heard . |
| 2 | It provides a measure of a country 's export competitiveness : a rise in the index implies a fall in competitiveness , and vice versa . |
| 3 | A fall in price would reduce the MRPL at every level of employment , the MRPL curve would shift left and employment would fall for a given weekly wage . |
| 4 | It is easy to see that at high prices consumers will only want to consume small quantities , while a fall in price will mean that demand increases . |
| 5 | A fall in price of sufficient magnitude would ultimately ensure that the initial excess supply would be eliminated . |
| 6 | A budget of US$444,704,000 for the biennium 1992-93 was approved — a fall in expenditure of $11,000,000 compared with 1990-91 , achieved by cutbacks including the loss of 62 posts . |
| 7 | With some votes still to be counted , the coalition had won around 44 per cent of the 3,600,000 votes cast , a fall in support of some 5 per cent compared with the election of 1988 . |
| 8 | A FALL in defence earnings resulted in a profits collapse last year at Graseby , formerly known as Cambridge Electronic Industries , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 9 | Figures released at the end of year showed a fall in hotel occupation of 18.1 per cent and in revenue of 8.5 per cent , resulting in an increase in the current-account deficit from 2.9 per cent of GDP in 1989 to 3.3 per cent in 1990 ( instead of the targeted reduction of 2.5 per cent ) . |
| 10 | The fall in unemployment meant a fall in government expenditure on unemployment benefits . |
| 11 | The success of smoke control areas throughout the country has also had an overall effect on odour pollution , due to the fact that the reduction in smoke has been accompanied by a fall in sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere , which in itself is odorous . |
| 12 | Thus platelet aggregation induced by ADP in vitro was enhanced following hypoglycaemia and this was associated with a fall in platelet count ( Hilsted et al , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Grant was removed from those authorities , so that any increase in spending brought a fall in income and , therefore , implied a further increase in rates to make up for that loss . |
| 14 | Although the UK figures would have shown a fall in income without the rapid increase in corporate recovery work ( up 31% to £40.1m ) , growth in the rest of Europe was stronger in the traditional areas of audit and business advisory services ( up 12% to £274m ) and tax consultancy ( up 8% to £93m ) . |
| 15 | The isolating effect for whole areas caused by a fall in income to subsistence level is explained in the CES report in the following way . |
| 16 | That in turn has led to a fall in income . |
| 17 | That is , the tax that can be recovered inside the PEP will reduce from £25 per £75 dividend distribution to £18.75 — a fall in income of 6.25 per cent . |
| 18 | Again , this represents a fall in income of 6.25 per cent . |
| 19 | Similarly , a fall in income would shift it to the left . |
| 20 | This conclusion was suggested by the finding that evidence on the elasticity of demand for public services at state and local levels was not consistent with the prediction that a budget-maximizing agency will always increase the budget more than proportionately in response to a fall in cost . |
| 21 | This led to an improvement in trade and a fall in inflation , so that Germany in the late 1980s became once again a country of trade surpluses and a strong currency , at the cost of some social division . |
| 22 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 23 | Index linked National Savings Certificates were popular up until the early 1980's , but with a fall in inflation they have tended to be eclipsed by the popularity of fixed interest certificates which accounted for about 16 per cent of total assets in 1990 . |
| 24 | FEARS of a price war among Britain 's tour operators sparked off a fall in holiday shares yesterday . |
| 25 | The Association of Business Sponsorship of the Arts says many sponsors are uneasy that they are expected to replace , rather than supplement , government grant , and a fall in sponsorship is feared . |
| 26 | The risks of a fall in profitability are covered by base capital ( 25 per cent of a firm 's annual costs ) , whilst position capital is held to protect against large falls in share prices in those shares held . |
| 27 | CONFIDENCE in Britain 's growing economic upturn suffered a slight dent today as official figures showed a fall in credit business in July . |
| 28 | Agriculture was briefly disrupted and a manufacturing recession , exacerbated by a drop in military orders after the Crimean War , a severe financial crisis in 1858 , and a fall in cotton imports during the American Civil War , was only overcome in the mid 1860s . |
| 29 | A fall in morale tends to be insidious but can be rapidly reversed with definite and positive action . |
| 30 | Figures cited included a fall in life expectancy , to 69 years for women and 63 for men in 1992 ; 3,500,000 abortions in state hospitals in 1991 ( compared with 2,500,000 live births ) ; 15 per cent of Russian territory was described as being in a situation of " ecological crisis " . |