Example sentences of "has fallen [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 2 | Over time , excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks has fallen as a share of total indirect taxes excise duties plus VAT — from 13.4% of the total in 1980/81 to only 8.6% in 1991/92 . |
| 3 | However , public expenditure has fallen as a proportion of GDP . |
| 4 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 5 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% . |
| 6 | The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’ |
| 7 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 8 | Workers could conceivably mistake a rise in money wages for a rise in real wage à la Friedman ( 1968 ) , but the Friedman speculation only makes sense if employers think ( perhaps mistakenly ) that the real wage rate has fallen to a level such as in Figure 6.10 . |
| 9 | The jobs are an attempt to inject ‘ new blood ’ into university departments where the turnover of staff has fallen to a trickle and to give new emphasis to information technology . |
| 10 | Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock . |
| 11 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 12 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 13 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |
| 14 | Since this treatment was introduced , the number of fatal overdoses has fallen from a peak of 192 in 1978 , to 152 in 1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 15 | The number of occupied psychiatric beds in England has fallen from a peak of 148 000 in 1954 to about 55 000 in 1990 . |
| 16 | Tree-planting has fallen from a peak of 29,000 hectares in the year to March 1988 to 17,300 hectares in 1992 , following the replacement of tax incentives for planting by a grant system in the 1988 budget . |