Example sentences of "it [vb past] fall to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provision of hospital beds was in decline , having been 2.2 per thousand in 1974 it had fallen to 1.6 per thousand by 1985 , due to both hospital cuts and to natural increase . |
| 2 | In 1957 the ratio was 10.79 to 1 , but by 1977 it had fallen to 4.97 to 1 . |
| 3 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 4 | The sensitivity of the graphite industry to international demand may be illustrated by the sharp fluctuations in the value of graphite exports as a proportion of the value of rice imports : in 1890 this proportion was eighteen per cent , by 1895 it had fallen to seven per cent , but in the boom year of 1899 it soared to sixty per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |