Example sentences of "down [prep] [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 2 | At that entrance , every ship goes through a painstaking security check examination right down to molecular level , which can seem endless . |
| 3 | Work on the two drainage ditches to keep water off the deck has now been completed and we have now done some work to provide steps down to trackbed level . |
| 4 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 5 | The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level . |
| 6 | It is power that is going to ensure go down to that level of decision making , to those people who know the problems best and would be able to deliver the right solutions . |
| 7 | At thirty quid , all but 5p , I originally thought the package was a wee bit overpriced — I 'd have said £20 was a better price point for it , but then I expect that it will be discounted down to that level anyway . |
| 8 | Near Pantelleria the formation was fired on , so dived down to low level where Plt.Off . |
| 9 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 10 | Their generous mouths worked , but the snips held the dialogue down to sub-audible level . |
| 11 | ‘ They do n't graze like a herd of sheep and keep all the vegetation down to one level , ’ says Robson . |
| 12 | At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform . |
| 13 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 14 | never thought I 'd get down to this level . |
| 15 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 16 | Working partnerships are symbolised through the culture of their practitioners and their patterns of interaction on a daily basis : teams working within teams focused through national regional , down to local level . |
| 17 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 18 | We need to inform and to educate our members and as Duncan said we need to get the resources down to local level . |