Example sentences of "they [be] down to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average hourly earnings in agriculture were nearly three-quarters of those in industry in the late 1940s ; today they are down to less than two-thirds . |
| 2 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 3 | At one stage in the game they were down to 11 men , but their shortcomings should not be allowed to detract from Warrington 's impressively positive performance , the home side contributing much that was memorable in a thrilling and thunderously received encounter . |
| 4 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 5 | The Orkney variety is extinct and the Shetland is critically low in numbers : at one stage they were down to 35 purebred cows and two bulls . |
| 6 | Evening papers still reached 90 per cent of their local households in the early 1960s : by 1980 , they were down to 60 per cent . |
| 7 | The Socialist Workers ' formation heckle team numbered about five and by the time the egg-throwers had been apprehended , they were down to three . |