Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] fallen from " in BNC.

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1 Paul Raynor , Conservative candidate for Middlesbrough , said South Tees acute hospitals were providing 30pc more treatments than ten years ago , whilst waiting lists had fallen from over 6,000 to approximately 4,000 in the same period .
2 John Flook , acting chief executive of Darlington Health Authority , said yesterday that two year waiting lists had fallen from 74 at the end of December to 24 last month .
3 Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground .
4 He reported that , partly because of nuclear power , reliance on oil to generate electricity in industrialized nations had fallen from 24 per cent in 1974 to 9 per cent in 1986 .
5 A local authority report on changes between 1979 and 1987 indicates that of the 16 600 pre-1919 dwelling in North Tyneside , the number without amenities had fallen from 2800 in 1979 to 262 in 1987 .
6 The number of Directors had fallen from 3 to none and that of District Surveyors from 4 to 2 .
7 These trousers had fallen from their hanger , and had laid unnoticed in the wardrobe bottom for a damp week .
8 Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory .
9 Between 1851 and 1861 , for example , in 821 rural parishes covered by the investigation the population had increased from 305567 to 322064 , while the number of houses had fallen from 69225 to 66109 .
10 The scales had fallen from her eyes and she saw all too clearly what perhaps she should have been aware of earlier .
11 Japanese and Polish scientists have studied samples of cod-liver oil taken from fish and found that levels of DDT had fallen from 25 micrograms per gram in 1974 to 3 micrograms in 1989 , and levels of PCBs had fallen from 18 to 7 micrograms over the same period .
12 After our half term holiday most of the leaves had fallen from the trees here and in the park .
13 The same hospital said that road deaths had fallen from three in February 1982 to nil in February this year .
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