Example sentences of "fall steadily [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother Francis was thinking about Eve as she watched the rain fall steadily on the convent grounds . |
| 2 | Death rates fell steadily through the 1970s then levelled out and began to rise again in the '80s . |
| 3 | There were around a thousand registered fighters in the 1940s , but the number fell steadily in the 1950s and 1960s as working-class affluence softened inner-city boys brought up to fight out of hunger and the sheer hardness of street life . |
| 4 | Although platinum traded in a narrow band close to the depressed levels of 1991 , rhodium fell steadily throughout the year to finish at a three year low . |
| 5 | The pound came under pressure and fell steadily against the dollar and the deutschmark in the spring of 1989 ; in the autumn the dollar and the deutschmark in the spring of 1989 ; in the autumn , the slump in its value became far more alarming . |
| 6 | She noted , she said with a pained expression , that output from the UK Vehicle Division of United Motors had been falling steadily over the previous ten years . |
| 7 | Snow was falling steadily over the prison , over Geneva , in midsummer … |
| 8 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |
| 9 | Adoptions have fallen steadily in the last 15 years . |
| 10 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |