Example sentences of "down the [noun sg] price " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 2 | Flicking through a newspaper , he tracked down the share price of TIP Europe , number two in the trailer rental market to his own company , Tiphook . |
| 3 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 4 | On balance , it was his wish to defend sterling by interventionist methods , to check activity at home and keep down the sterling price of imports , rather than curb the flow of money , that dictated much of his policy . |
| 5 | So far from sending prices up , the abolition of licensing would immediately bring down the market price of existing houses and would in a short time begin to make an impression on the costs of new ones ; for the pressure of demand for new houses at a cost of nearly £2,000 apiece for a council-type is , in our opinion , very limited . |