Example sentences of "was down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that . |
| 2 | Rescuers said there was good visibility with clear skies but the freezing level was down to 2,000 feet . |
| 3 | I mean it was down to that kind of detail . |
| 4 | In December 1991 it was down to 3,816 . |
| 5 | Whereas in 1987–8 some 14 per cent of their wheat imports came as aid , in 1988–9 the percentage was down to 11 per cent . |
| 6 | The commerce sector was down to 7.8 per cent growth in 1990 , from 8.3 per cent in 1989 , and transport and communications also recorded a slight fall in growth , at 8.8 per cent compared with 9.4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 7 | I saw nothing of the scenery ; visibility was down to fifty yards . |
| 8 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 9 | In 1941 the cheese ration was down to 1 oz per week . |
| 10 | The annual budget of NAEP was once as much as 7.1 million dollars ( about £3.5 million pounds ) , although by 1982 the figure was down to 3.88 million dollars . |
| 11 | The bag was down to five hundred feet . |
| 12 | Er , they 're overall figures , but for instance the F T , which er , the year before seventy five percent of its revenue came from advertising and er in , in ninety one it was down to seventy percent . |
| 13 | By now McRae was down to seventh , four minutes adrift and close to tears . |
| 14 | But Kendall was in no mood to sympathise , saying : ‘ As far as I 'm concerned , the penalty was down to poor defending . |
| 15 | He nodded and departed , and I relayed the request to the barman who shook his head and said he was down to six cubes . |
| 16 | The early coaches went via Lewes but a new turnpike through Cuckfield in the later 1770s speeded up the journey considerably and the trip was down to six hours by 1820 . |
| 17 | From 1961 to 1973 , Spain 's growth had been 7 per cent a year , faster than in any capitalist economy except Japan ; by 1976 – 81 , growth was down to 1.4 per cent a year . |
| 18 | The gap between them , with those two races remaining , was down to eight points . |
| 19 | There has been criticism of my buying but most were hired in a crisis when I was down to eight fit men . |
| 20 | She was down to 99 in two hours . |
| 21 | A new economic adjustment plan was announced in March 1991 [ see p. 38093 ] and the government claimed that inflation was down to 4.7 per cent for April . |
| 22 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 23 | It was down to one yard and 343 employees in August 1987 , although with new orders the work force increased to 850 at the beginning of 1988 . |
| 24 | Why , in 1985 when we had all the farm foreclosures [ bankruptcies ] , my class was down to two . |
| 25 | Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards . |
| 26 | And it was down to two brilliant second shots by the boss , with a bit of confirmation on the clubs from me , where the 1965 British Open title was going . |
| 27 | Rusper , founded for twelve nuns and a prioress in the twelfth century , was down to two by the sixteenth century , both of whom were very aged . |
| 28 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |
| 29 | According to a report dated May 21 , Bosnia-Hercegovina had suffered by that date material damage estimated at US$60,000 million-100,000 million ; electricity output was down to 17 per cent of normal levels ; and about four-fifths of the republic 's industrial plant had been destroyed . |
| 30 | They reduced their time in bed by 30 minutes every two weeks until it was down to 6.5 hours , then by 30 minutes every three weeks until it was 5 hours , and finally by 30 minutes every 4 weeks . |