Example sentences of "have fallen [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 2 | The incidence of the tax has fallen on both firms and workers even though , as a matter of administrative convenience , the tax may be collected by the government directly from workers . |
| 3 | The most certain of these is that employment in the primary sector has fallen for over 100 years , and continues to fall by around 2 to 3 per cent a year . |
| 4 | From a peak of 400 mines around 1850 , the number has fallen to just four . |
| 5 | However , by the time we have moved forward from the crack tip to roughly the position of the next interatomic bond , the stress has fallen to rather less than half the peak value . |
| 6 | Thirty African countries have agreed to co-operate in efforts to save the elephant , whose population in Africa has fallen to around 600,000 , compared with over one million a decade ago . |
| 7 | In the face of poaching , land clearance and logging , the world 's population of wild tigers has fallen to around 7,000 ; three of the eight main species have died out and a fourth is on the verge of extinction . |
| 8 | The amount of funds channelled towards buy-out/buy-ins has risen to 61 per cent of the total in 1989 , whereas that for start ups has fallen to only 6 per cent ( start-ups and other early stage only account for 15 per cent of total funds invested ) . |
| 9 | Ever since I started observing it , about 30 years ago , the magnitude has remained between 4.6 and 5.3 , with a mean of 4.9 , but there are occasions when it has fallen to below 6 . |
| 10 | The figure has fallen to less than 60 per cent as overseas banks have become keen lenders . |
| 11 | Although the number of fatal accidents on farms has fallen to about 60 a year , Carl Boswell , the Health and Safety Executive 's chief agricultural inspector , says it is proving very difficult to cut the tally further . |
| 12 | The cropped area has fallen to about 1,500 ha . |
| 13 | NIN ( 29 November 1987 ) claims that the proportion of Albanians in Kosovo has now reached 85 per cent , which would imply that the proportion of Serbs and Montenegrins has fallen to about 11 per cent . |
| 14 | Let us look now at what can happen when the ‘ top-down ’ view that children should learn to ‘ predict their way through a text ’ — is put into action with children whose reading has fallen behind even average expectation . |
| 15 | But he does not believe the English game has fallen behind technically , simply because of the Eighties ban from club competition , saying : ‘ After six years out of Europe our national side finished in the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 16 | As a result , the amount of local authority housing built has fallen from more than 65,300 homes in 1979 to a mere 8,600 in 1990 . |
| 17 | Despite a 15-year ban on trading in rhino horn , numbers of black rhinos has fallen from around 65,000 in 1977 to 2,500 ; numbers are falling at the rate of 28 per cent a year . |
| 18 | Sterling , for example , has fallen from about 185 yen on February 1 to about 170 on Tuesday . |
| 19 | But during the same period the futures price has fallen by just 10 per cent . |
| 20 | The level of the peat fenland in Cambridgeshire has fallen by up to 4.6 metres in many places since Vermuyden 's initial scheme was completed in the 1650s . |
| 21 | In real terms , median black family income in the mid-west has fallen by nearly a third in the past 20 years , from $24,690 to $17,400 . |
| 22 | Employment in the American defence industry has fallen by nearly 1m people ( or 14% ) since 1987 . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman neglected to mention that unemployment in his constituency has fallen by nearly 20 per cent . |
| 24 | The average male sperm density has fallen by nearly 50 per cent over the past 50 years , according to a new Danish study of 15,000 men worldwide , suggesting that environmental factors may be to blame . |
| 25 | They said : ‘ In our health authority region the number of people waiting over two years for hospital treatment has fallen by nearly 69pc since last March . |
| 26 | Since 1979 , public sector investment has fallen by around 4bn . |
| 27 | For instance , since 1975 capital spending has fallen by around thirteen percentage points , whereas current grants and subsidies , mainly for welfare purposes , have risen by ten percentage points and current spending on goods and services , by around two percentage points . |
| 28 | It has fallen by only 11.6 million tonnes , or 9.6 per cent . |
| 29 | THE NUMBER of people entitled to civil legal aid has fallen by more than 14 million since 1979 , according to research published today . |
| 30 | The 23-year-old 's weight has fallen by more than 3st through eating difficulties — and she needs sustained medical treatment . |