Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] fallen from " in BNC.

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1 The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect .
2 In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 .
3 Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two .
4 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 .
5 Capital investment has fallen from the abnormal peak in 1991 , when we acquired Petromed in Spain .
6 Yet the downward trend has started ; and a Burmese economic expert reckons that last month the cost of living figure has fallen from 800% above pre-war level to 600% .
7 The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon .
8 After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders .
9 The Labour share of the popular vote had fallen from 50.4 per cent in 1945 to 49.2 per cent , but the party had lost nearly 100 seats .
10 In just four seasons here the number of people arrested on charges connected with football have fallen from more than three hundred and fifty to just under one hundred .
11 The 1991 Cheltenham hero has fallen from grace this season , showing a poor attitude and worse form , most recently when tailed off last behind Mole Board at Sandown a fortnight ago .
12 Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now .
13 Their cash has fallen from an average £4.20 a week last year to £4 , a survey reveals today .
14 The Australian group bidding for Pearl argues that the UK market 's proportion of individual life and pension business attributable to this method of business has fallen from 25 per cent to 7 per cent .
15 Union membership had fallen from over 13 million in 1980 to below 10 million three years later .
16 East Glasgow 's population had fallen from about 100,000 in 1961 to 45,000 in 1976 .
17 An UNCTAD report on LDCs released in April 1991 said that overall economic growth within the group had fallen from 2.7 per cent in 1989 to 2.5 per cent in 1990 .
18 The loss per share has fallen from 10 cents a share to 1 cent , but it was the renewed promise of a dividend that helped the shares beat the market trend yesterday .
19 That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely .
20 New figures show that the number of apprentices north of the Border has fallen from 13,600 in March 1981 to 6,300 in March 1990 .
21 Investment in scientific research and development has fallen from 0.35% to 0.28% of GDP ( while in Germany it stands at 0.40% ) , not only affecting our higher education system but creating a knock-on effect throughout the British economy .
22 The company 's share price has fallen from A$1.87 in January to 14 cents on Tuesday .
23 Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region .
24 The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent .
25 He noted that inflation had fallen from 159 per cent in December 1987 to 17 per cent as at September 1989 , the lowest level for over 10 years .
26 While the rate of inflation had fallen from 10.9 per cent in September-October 1990 to below 9 per cent in February 1991 , unemployment in the United Kingdom ( including Northern Ireland ) had risen ( seasonally adjusted ) from around 5.7 per cent in the first half of 1990 to 6.0 per cent by October and to 7.0 per cent by February 1991 ; in the last quarter of 1990 the index of industrial production was about 3@1/2 per cent down on the figure a year earlier and gross domestic product at constant 1985 factor prices about 1@1/2 per cent lower .
27 A further cut of 1 per cent was announced by the Australian Reserve Bank on May 16 , following the release of figures for the three months to March which showed the annualized rate of inflation had fallen from 6.9 per cent to 4.9 per cent , the lowest for nine years .
28 Inflation had fallen from a high of 15.7 per cent in 1987 to 4.9 per cent at end-1990 , but at the cost of falling output and a sharp rise in unemployment .
29 As a result the SB level for a couple on the ordinary rate has fallen from 61 per cent of personal disposable income per capita in 1978 to 53 per cent in 1987 .
30 The percentage of drivers that would prefer the old 50 km/h limit has fallen from 46 per cent before , to six per cent after , the experimental period .
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