Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price had soared to 250p before crashing last year . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 3 | In 1974-75 , the last Labour Government spent £1,425 million in real terms at 1991-92 prices ; by 1978-79 , that had fallen to £918 million . |
| 4 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |
| 5 | In 1986 this had fallen to 9% . |
| 6 | The orientation and position of the model was refined as a rigid body in X-plor ; after this procedure the R -factor had fallen to 30% . |
| 7 | Ronson told bankers that the March 31 accounts would show net assets had fallen to £135 million compared with £585 million previously . |
| 8 | By Oct. 24 it had fallen to $29.10 , only to turn upwards again ( following the apparent failure of the Soviet initiative ) and reach $34.95 as of Nov.1 . |
| 9 | Over the first period of study ( 1978–83 ) , hospital mortality was 9% , while over the second period ( 1984–8 ) it had fallen to 4% ( Fisher 's exact test : p=0.4 ) . |
| 10 | The duties had fallen to 5% . |
| 11 | By September 1943 ( when Italy surrendered ) the proportion of people who felt mass unemployment was inevitable had fallen to 19% . |
| 12 | Guy Routh calculated that in 1931 34% of higher professionals were self-employed or employers ; by 1971 this had fallen to 16% . |
| 13 | Profits of £30 million in 1990 had fallen to £20 million last year . |
| 14 | In 1986 these had stood at £99.4 billion ; by the beginning of 1992 they had fallen to £16 billion . |
| 15 | By 1989 its share had fallen to 13% , reflecting the diminishing importance of the manufacturing sector to the UK economy . |
| 16 | Iraq 's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait caused a dramatic increase in oil prices ; the " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had fallen to $16.60 per barrel on June 5 , rose to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 and passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 . |
| 17 | NEWS that inflation had fallen to 3% , its lowest level for six years , injected some much-needed confidence into a wobbly stockmarket . |
| 18 | In what was presented as action to protect its foreign exchange reserves ( which had fallen to $5,600 million according to government sources ) the government on July 5 , 1989 , informed the " Paris Club " group of creditors that it was temporarily deferring payment of $812,000,000 in interest which had been due on June 30 and July 3 . |
| 19 | The 30% rate stayed the same until 1987 for companies and until 1988 for individuals and trustees although , in the meantime , the basic rate of income tax had fallen to 25% . |
| 20 | By 1986 this proportion had fallen to 54% . |
| 21 | In 1571 the average had fallen to £487 , only nine out of fifty-eight were rated above £1,000 , and the highest was £2,133 . |
| 22 | By Lesson 27 the speed had dropped to 87rpm , the speed I had to use to get the voice to sound the same as Lesson 1 . |
| 23 | While in 1971 the CGS controlled 42% of all unionized workers , by 1976 its share had dropped to 19% . |
| 24 | When delivery was actually made , the market price had dropped to 42s. 6d . |
| 25 | Pentos shares had dropped to 61p on the Monday before Christmas , having slipped 5.5p to 65.5p the previous week . |
| 26 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 27 | In fact , says WG , sales had amounted to £8.5m and Alkar had made a loss . |
| 28 | For example , in 1936–37 the costs of providing courses in rural Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire had amounted to £330 in excess of grant earned under the Board of Education Regulations . |
| 29 | In April 1991 Kaifu visited the USA for talks with Bush , and a multinational Import Board , established as a result of the SII talks , was inaugurated with the aim of reducing the US trade deficit with Japan which in 1990 had amounted to $41,000 million , almost half the total US deficit [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 30 | With defeat written across his face Sir Kit announced his departure in February 1991 , when profits had collapsed to £11m and forced a cut in the dividend . |