Example sentences of "when [noun] fell to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene at Truro when winds fell to zero and Peter decided to create his own airspeed . |
| 2 | When Gooch fell to a close-in catch off Mushtaq , and that artist of mystery compelled a nervous and fatal parry at a wider one by Stewart in his next over , England tottered at 65 for 4 . |
| 3 | The value of the 1989 tobacco crop was significantly reduced from the record 1988 level , despite a large increase in burley tobacco sales , when prices fell to their lowest level in three years . |
| 4 | When Barcelona fell to General Yagüe 's troops on 26 January 1939 , it was clear that the Republic could not turn the tide in its favour . |
| 5 | When Rome fell to the barbarian tribes during the fourth and fifth centuries , Europe was reduced to a primitive backwater . |
| 6 | The first ended when Gascony fell to the French in 1453 , and the second began when the ambitions of Henry VIII for military glory drew the country into the conflicts of a Europe which had been greatly changed by the emergence of powerful new states in the last quarter of the fifteenth century . |
| 7 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |