Example sentences of "has fallen [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 2 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 3 | However , public expenditure has fallen as a proportion of GDP . |
| 4 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% . |
| 5 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 6 | Over time , excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks has fallen as a share of total indirect taxes excise duties plus VAT — from 13.4% of the total in 1980/81 to only 8.6% in 1991/92 . |
| 7 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 9 | The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’ |
| 10 | The jobs are an attempt to inject ‘ new blood ’ into university departments where the turnover of staff has fallen to a trickle and to give new emphasis to information technology . |
| 11 | The government boasted that the number of patients waiting for hospital treatment for over a year has fallen to a ‘ new record low ’ . |
| 12 | Workers could conceivably mistake a rise in money wages for a rise in real wage à la Friedman ( 1968 ) , but the Friedman speculation only makes sense if employers think ( perhaps mistakenly ) that the real wage rate has fallen to a level such as in Figure 6.10 . |
| 13 | Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock . |
| 14 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 15 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |
| 16 | Since this treatment was introduced , the number of fatal overdoses has fallen from a peak of 192 in 1978 , to 152 in 1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 17 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 18 | The number of occupied psychiatric beds in England has fallen from a peak of 148 000 in 1954 to about 55 000 in 1990 . |
| 19 | Tree-planting has fallen from a peak of 29,000 hectares in the year to March 1988 to 17,300 hectares in 1992 , following the replacement of tax incentives for planting by a grant system in the 1988 budget . |
| 20 | As a result , the number of days lost each year through strikes has fallen from an average 12.9 million in the 1970s to less than a million last year — the lowest figure since records began a century ago . |
| 21 | Their cash has fallen from an average £4.20 a week last year to £4 , a survey reveals today . |
| 22 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 23 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 24 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 25 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 26 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |