Example sentences of "[adv] fall [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) .
2 House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas .
3 House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas .
4 This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas .
5 One exception is if you previously contracted out but your earnings have since fallen substantially .
6 For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart .
7 In relation to churches serving other denominations , it has been the case until recently that Roman Catholic churches have rarely fallen out of use , although the general decline in religious observance is beginning to affect some of these buildings too .
8 The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent .
9 In any case , Rothstein says , networks will eventually fall apart under their own weight without the arrival of object-oriented technologies .
10 Perhaps the differences between the men were what caused their plans to eventually fall apart , but I think it was a combination of Cassius 's selfishness , Brutus 's nobility , and extremely bad luck which finally finished off the conspirators .
11 Gower needed just two runs to reach 7,000 in his hundredth Test and got them , only to fall immediately to a quite unnecessary flick down the leg side .
12 Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation .
13 A few combinations scrambled over only to fall apart on landing .
14 This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) .
15 Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute .
16 Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) .
17 After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s .
18 By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster .
19 The buildings around us were scorched by fire , their roofs long fallen in , the façades scored by shoals of bullets , shattered by artillery fire .
20 What would you like to be er , a Scottish tradition which at the moment is perhaps fallen away ?
21 His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward .
22 It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims .
23 SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down .
24 Dandruff irritates too , but it is dull , flaky , and loose enough to fall out .
25 And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment .
26 But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance .
27 Sitting on the ground was Terry Porter who 'd apparently fallen over and cut his knee quite badly .
28 I 've no teeth now , and my hair has all fallen out , but I can still think — and remember .
29 And it can all fall through because theirs is falling through or they ca n't get out when you want and that can go on for Can it not ?
30 I hope it does n't all fall through .
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