Example sentences of "[adv] fell by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population of Greater London alone fell by almost three-quarters of a million between 1971 and 1981 , a drop of almost 1 in 10 ( OPCS , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes , so fell by the wayside . |
| 3 | But the traditional management buyouts - with bosses taking a majority holding - only fell by 10% between 1989 and 1991 . |
| 4 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 5 | The species richness of this invertebrate community also fell by half — 69 species were recorded prior to flooding — and had not recovered after two years . |
| 6 | Atari 's quarterly sales also fell by 17 per cent from $99 million to $81 million , while profits of $7 million turned into a $5 million loss . |
| 7 | The number of self-employed also fell by 24,000 over the same period . |
| 8 | Alan 's vitamin E level also fell by 30 per cent form the middle towards the bottom of the normal range . |
| 9 | Pre-tax profits slipped overall by 27pc to 1.025 billion Kroner and sales also fell by 1pc . |
| 10 | In trade-weighted terms the dollar and D-mark both fell by 0.6% during the week and the yen rose by 1.8% . |
| 11 | BOSNIA still tugs at the heart-strings , while events in Russia are potentially stomach-churning , and share prices , from Hong Kong westward round the world , duly fell by up to 2.5 per cent yesterday . |
| 12 | In 1872 , when a fifteen cent stamp fee for criminal plaints was instituted , the number of police court cases immediately fell by one-third . |
| 13 | In the first half of 1989 the unemployment rate reportedly fell by half a percentage point . |
| 14 | It then fell by stages to its present level . |
| 15 | PGE 2 rose after radiotherapy from 0.6 ng.ml - 1 ( 0.60 to 2.4 ) to 1.58 ng.ml - 1 ( median 0.60 to 9.6 ) with a median rise of 0.44 ng.ml - 1 , p=0.038 ) and then fell by -0.48 ng.ml - 1 ( median , range +0.92 to -1.56 , p=0.173 ) ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 16 | In Hereford and Worcester , the total again fell by more than five hundred to twenty seven thousand six hundred . |
| 17 | Major reform of the welfare system was one of Carter 's most important objectives , but that too fell by the wayside . |
| 18 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 19 | And so if we look at what happened generally between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two the general picture is that the number of total holidays taken actually fell by three percent . |