Example sentences of "fall sharply [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 2 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 3 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 4 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 5 | On the following day the share price index , which had fallen sharply during the previous year ( largely because funds had been siphoned from the stock exchange into real estate speculation ) , rose by almost 30 points , one of its biggest one-day gains . |
| 6 | Bombay : Prices fell sharply for the second day running . |
| 7 | From the record levels of 1920 , LCS trade fell sharply with the inevitable revival of opposition to political involvement . |
| 8 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 9 | PAY deals in the manufacturing and service industries fell sharply over the past year . |
| 10 | He fell sharply through the space of the cabin , and was sinking again through its floor . |
| 11 | Because of tightening central government controls on borrowing , the proportion of local authority capital income derived from borrowing fell sharply during the 1970s and 1980s ( from 83.7 per cent in 1974/5 to 48.4 per cent in 1984/5 ) ( all figures for England are calculated from Travers , 1986 , tables , App. 4 and 5 ) . |
| 12 | As we can see from the diagram , the ratio of general government expenditure to GDP fell sharply during the growth years of the mid-to-late 1980s . |
| 13 | Estimates by Bill Martin of UBS Phillips and Drew take scrapping into account and show , plausibly , that the stock of capital fell sharply in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | This meant that wages fell sharply in the coal exporting districts of South Wales and the North East but remained the same in the new and expanding south Yorkshire coalfield , where new and deeper mines were producing high quality coal for the home market . |
| 15 | Enrolments at both primary and secondary levels fell sharply in the early 1980s before beginning to rise steadily from 1984 onwards . |
| 16 | Individual contributions fell sharply in the recession of the early 1980s . |
| 17 | Financial service companies operating costs fell sharply in the final quarter of 1991 and a more modest decline is expected over the next quarter . |
| 18 | This below-par performance was partly reflected in our share price , which fell sharply in the summer , [ though in line with the market it had recovered some ground by the year-end ] If , by Feb 11 , the price is on the way down , omit words in [ ] |
| 19 | After 1341 , however , the costs of war fell sharply from the levels they had reached between 1338 and 1341 , and not until the 1370s did they begin once again to approach those levels . |
| 20 | At the beginning of October , as the German Bundesbank took no immediate steps to reduce interest rates , both the British and Italian currencies fell sharply against the deutschmark , but then recovered . |
| 21 | Sales of units fell sharply after the crash of October 1987 . |
| 22 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |