Example sentences of "[verb] fallen [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPTIMISM in the financial services sector has fallen despite signs of a pick-up in business , according to a report today . |
| 2 | Its public debt has fallen to 111% of GDP from a peak of 131% in 1987 , but this is still the second highest ( behind Belgium ) of any industrial economy . |
| 3 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |
| 4 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 5 | Mortality from gastric cancer has fallen in areas of Japan where screening has been most widely accepted . |
| 6 | She said that the baby had suffered a fit , and she had fallen on top of him . |
| 7 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 8 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 9 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 10 | There is also er as , as well as recognizing that there are some things that perhaps we might have er concluded , but because of the er nature of the definition have fallen outside inclusion of this report . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |