Example sentences of "[adv] fell [prep] disuse " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cheapness of the method , combined with the ease in ensuring that a particular colour would be identical in shade to the one used earlier , meant that plant dyes soon fell into disuse except in remote country areas . |
| 2 | However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | In the East the ransom view also fell into disuse , but the Devil remained as a major opponent to be defeated by Christ on the cross . |
| 4 | The feudal levy now fell into disuse : it was summoned in 1327 , and then for the last time , and probably for financial reasons , in 1385 . |
| 5 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 6 | Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case . |