Example sentences of "[was/were] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1955 export prices were down to world levels , a development which must have accelerated the scrapping of old plant . |
| 2 | But many of his inventions were down to earth , as witness the Franklin stove which was a real energy saver , and provided comfort to the whole room , an early example of the ‘ Save It ’ campaign . |
| 3 | For one thing he was down to half-pay and even more important , there were no little extras coming every week in brown envelopes . |
| 4 | They manned the barricades — did a good job , but survival was down to luck at times . |
| 5 | Completing the professional trio is the first lady professional in the district — 22-year old Sally Rippon from Stinchcombe Hill who started playing at 16 and within three years was down to handicap 4 . |
| 6 | I insisted in my foreword that spiritual warfare was down to earth and it is no less than modernity where the battle is now raging . |
| 7 | He liked Mrs Robson , he had become very fond of her : she was down to earth , and she seemed to bring him out of himself , but she seemed to be harbouring serious ideas about Maggie and him . |
| 8 | Big star who was down to earth |
| 9 | Since the West Midlands business and now all this about false evidence everywhere you looked , the police popularity poll was down to minus two . |