Example sentences of "fall [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports , at Z$1.5 billion , would fall by nearly a third . |
| 2 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 3 | Julius Baer recently announced that its profits fell by nearly a fifth last year , to SFr35m ( $28m ) , thanks largely to lower commissions on share deals . |
| 4 | Regional income fell by almost a fifth , while the region 's foreign debt doubled . |
| 5 | There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third . |
| 6 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 7 | In real terms , median black family income in the mid-west has fallen by nearly a third in the past 20 years , from $24,690 to $17,400 . |
| 8 | But Japan 's reserves have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of 1988 . |
| 9 | Official figures greatly exaggerate the drop in industrial production ( which is said to have fallen by almost a third last year ) . |
| 10 | THE number of people killed or badly injured on England 's roads in 1991 has fallen by almost a third to 47,404 since the early 1980s . |
| 11 | On the Leicester Abbey estates , of which 75–80 per cent fell within the shire , rent income in 1408 was nearly a fifth lower than in 1341 , and by 1477 had fallen by almost a third on the 1341 figure , despite the fact that the proportion of income obtained from rent as opposed to production had risen . |