Example sentences of "[det] [be] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Valley police caught one hundred and fifty four … that s down on last years one hundred and ninety nine . |
| 2 | By 7 years only 1.5 per cent of children are still soiling and by 10 to 11 years this is down to 0.8 per cent ( Bellman 1966 ) . |
| 3 | By the 1992 election , this was down to 95.3 per cent . |
| 4 | That is down to little else but bad luck . |
| 5 | M forty between junctions four and five , between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , that 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions and the additional problem of a contraflow at Boulter End with single line traffic running both ways . |
| 6 | There are Alembics , which are selling well ; we had a dozen in stock , that 's down to three now . |
| 7 | And between junctions five and seven , that 's down to single line traffic , that 's the stretch between Stokenchurch and Thame , for repair work also . |
| 8 | And on the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , and a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , also that 's down to single line traffic at times , so that could slow you down quite a lot . |
| 9 | Er if you stand back from our situation and see it that er the contribution rate for employees was reduced from sixty five per cent for er a company i it became a balance of cost and that works out now at five per cent , so the total inputs of the scheme is ten per cent of earnings and that was down from eighteen per cent . |