Example sentences of "[vb past] fallen [prep] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war years had seen a boom in cocoa prices : in 1938 cocoa earned £5½ million for 300 000 long tons ; by 1948 , because of disease , production had fallen to 200 000 tons but earnings had increased to £41 million . |
| 2 | But a decade later , numbers had fallen to three million and the YHA was in crisis . |
| 3 | Major job losses came in manufacturing where , in 1972 , there were 81 000 jobs in Northern Tyneside ; by 1984 , this had fallen to 53 000 , a loss of more than a third . |
| 4 | German steel production had peaked in 1974 at over 53 million tons , in 1979 it was 46 million but by 1983 it had fallen to 36 million . |
| 5 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |
| 6 | So over half the strongest firms had fallen in these eighty years . |
| 7 | Yet by 1911 its population had fallen by four thousand . |
| 8 | The LCC area had declined in population by 0.2 per cent overall , but within that Lewisham had increased by 26 per cent and Wandsworth by 34 per cent ; the population of Middlesex was up by 42 per cent in ten years , Essex and Surrey both by 30 per cent , while the population of Ireland had fallen by another 2 per cent . |
| 9 | Speaking at a conference in Bangkok , Thailand , he said that forest cover had fallen from 13 million hectares in the 1960s ( corresponding to 73 per cent of the country 's land area ) to seven million hectares today ( 39 per cent ) . |