Example sentences of "[verb] fall from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 2 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 3 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 4 | The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH . |
| 5 | At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% . |
| 6 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |
| 7 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 8 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 9 | Yet the downward trend has started ; and a Burmese economic expert reckons that last month the cost of living figure has fallen from 800% above pre-war level to 600% . |
| 10 | In rats the number of cells increases rapidly in the four to six days before birth , and the proliferative compartment — the proportion of β cells able to replicate — is thought to fall from 10% during fetal life to 3% in young adulthood . |
| 11 | Of unmarried women who became pregnant , the proportion who married the father before the baby was born fell from 40% in 1970 to 11% in 1988 , whereas the proportion of pregnancies terminated by abortion rose from 24% to 37% . |
| 12 | But according to chairman D J Dace , without exchange rate variations , sales would actually have fallen from £2.7m to £54.6m . |
| 13 | Though misgivings had been expressed regarding the possibility of a low turnout , in fact the percentage of votes cast fell from 72% in 1973 to 66% in 1975 . |
| 14 | In 1983 gas supplied 8% of energy demand and this is anticipated to rise to over 20% by 1990 by which time dependence on imported oil and gas is planned to fall from 83% in 1983 to 52% in 1990 . |
| 15 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 16 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 17 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 18 | Profits have fallen from £322m for 1990 as the company , which operates textile , cleaning , security , distribution , plant , personnel , catering , joinery and facilities management businesses , rebuilds . |
| 19 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 20 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 21 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 22 | More than 300 people have fallen from trains in the past 20 years . |