Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] have fallen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will question NAB 's assertion that the value of the brewery operations has fallen to such a level that asset-backed loans are in jeopardy . |
| 2 | In 1992 , used car values have fallen to even lower levels . |
| 3 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |
| 4 | In its latest salvo over equal access to each other 's markets , AT&T Co is telling the US regulatory authorities that the accounting rates — the amount the originator pays the co-respondent for landing a call — between the UK and the US could be cut by 60% : according to the Financial Times , AT&T says British Telecommunications Plc has refused to agree a cut , British Telecom says nonsense , we are still considering it and we will let them know next month ; transatlantic accounting rates have fallen by near 50% over the past two years . |
| 5 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 6 | In the past decade , the number of jobs in Scotch Whisky companies has fallen by 40% from 26,000 to 15 . |
| 7 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 8 | According to Peter Ochumba , of the Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute ( KEMFRI ) , all but three of the lake 's 600-odd fish species have died out , oxygen levels have fallen dramatically ( owing to an explosion of the algae population ) , and just under half of the lake is already " dead " . |
| 9 | The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn , but the sun was still lighting up the far corner where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble is that ever since the mid-80s , when it became illegal to import them , tortoise numbers have fallen . |
| 11 | The report finds that carbon monoxide emissions have risen by 30 per cent since 1980 , with road vehicles being responsible for 90 per cent of these , but that lead emissions have fallen by 70 per cent since the arrival of unleaded petrol in the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | The local Forest courts had fallen into disuse ; in 1601 the regarders of Chippenham Forest had complained that there was great disorder ‘ for want of a swanmote court ’ . |
| 13 | Since 1978 , average airborne lead concentrations have fallen by 93 per cent ( figure 8.12 ) . |
| 14 | When she walked back to her towel Piers had fallen asleep , and was snoring softly , the cap still pulled down over his face . |
| 15 | The data for 1991 show that car ownership in Lothian is now 40% greater than 1981–85 average whereas accident casualties have fallen by around 8% . |
| 16 | Over the past two years the number of class members attending Study Group days has fallen off considerably . |
| 17 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 18 | On average , real commodity prices have fallen by 28 per cent between 1980 and 1986 , according to UNCTAD data . |
| 19 | Over the last three years , tiger numbers have fallen from 44 to 15 , raising fears for their viability . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , pollution emissions have fallen in Buxtehude and the smoother , slower driving seems bound to produce beneficial effects in other schemes too . |
| 21 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 22 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 23 | The same number also believe the new curriculum and assessment changes have been detrimental to schools , with 40pc claiming education standards have fallen . |
| 24 | Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism . |
| 25 | He wants them to scrap the minimum lending rates which are used to keep interest rates high , even though the bank base rates have fallen . |
| 26 | In eight subjects , poly unemployment rates had risen while university rates had fallen ; the reverse was true in only three subjects . |
| 27 | These first Mark IIs to reach Malta were a most welcome reinforcement , arriving at a time when Axis operations had fallen off , pending the German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece . |
| 28 | Between November 1978 and November 1986 , short-term replacement rates have fallen ; for example , whereas 65 per cent of claimants had an income below 80 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , this had risen to 87 per cent of claimants in 1986 . |
| 29 | World sugar prices have fallen 40% in the past nine months to under $220 a tonne for raw sugar , the lowest since May 1988 . |
| 30 | The school is closing down and pupil numbers have fallen from 700 to 300 over ten years . |