Example sentences of "down more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures were no more attractive at the operating level , where profits before exceptional items were down more than half at £31m and the combined contributions of the profitable elements-engineering , construction and mining-were a quarter lower at £58m . |
| 2 | For us , federalism means decentralisation : passing powers down more than passing them up . |
| 3 | What happened to them was the not-so-mystery ailment that cuts down more pop stars than drugs or fast cars ever do : overwork . |
| 4 | For nearly two weeks they used very low currents , about 0.05 amps , and discovered that the cell cooled down more than expected . |
| 5 | But Patterson was knocked down more times than any heavy-weight champ — with Joe Louis in second place . |
| 6 | There are many who dislike the idea of a front-rower calling the shots because the role of their position demands their heads to be down more than up . |
| 7 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 8 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
| 9 | The implications of this fact for manipulability are great ; linguistic context can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 10 | This completeness and therefore detachment , she claims , facilitates manipulability : ‘ linguistic contexts can be turned upside down more easily than real ones . |
| 11 | Powershift is going to put him down more than a notch or two in the meantime . |
| 12 | ‘ We are currently extending our cellars so that we can lay down more young wines , ’ said Dr Davies , who established the cellars at Derby Hall when he was appointed warden in 1984 . |
| 13 | I put down more concentration |
| 14 | She turned to see Sendei gulping down more of the pink drink . |
| 15 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 16 | This wreck was the Small Gains , which had gone down more than twenty-live years before , when hundreds of barges were still working under sail . |
| 17 | They will launch intense microwaves down the borehole to start the reaction , and will them pump down more reagents to keep it going . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I expect Mr Gajdusek will give you time off to compensate , ’ she suggested , holding down more remarks , though in actual fact it was questions which sprang to her lips : where had Mr Gajdusek gone and how long would he be away ? |
| 19 | Plans had to be put on hold when the Royal National Theatre decided to stage The Miser in London but the actor was keen enough on the project to commit himself to the project months ahead and risk turning down more lucrative work . |
| 20 | In 1991 , productivity rose about 3 per cent , which compared favourably with total Scottish manufacturing productivity , down more than 1 per cent . |
| 21 | Try to track down more details of either the EEC Standard Industrial Classification or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases than are given in Section 6.4.1. ( you may be lucky enough to have a sight of the complete listings or you may have to scan EEC or World Health Organization publications for information . ) |