Example sentences of "fallen to [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 2 | In that year about 21 per cent of all Africa 's earnings from exports were accounted for by payment of principal and interest on debt ; by 1987 the figure had fallen to 14 per cent and was likely to decrease further . |
| 3 | By 1976 this had fallen to 16 per cent where it remained without significant change up to 1986 . |
| 4 | Even though its vote was slightly up on that of October 1974 , Labour 's share of the poll had fallen to 36.9 per cent , the worst since 1931 , while the Tories had risen to 43.9 per cent . |
| 5 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 6 | Britain 's aid budget has fallen to 0.32 per cent of gross national product , less than half UN 's target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 7 | By 1971 , however , the number of house standing committees chaired by southerners had fallen to 38 per cent and to 23 per cent by 1979 ; meanwhile the comparable figures in the Senate were 53 per cent in 1971 and 27 per cent in 1979 . |
| 8 | They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent . |
| 9 | Unemployment had fallen to six per cent , wages were higher and economic expansion helped to provide housing and unemployment for the refugees from the eastern lands . |
| 10 | Tall blocks ( five or more storeys ) accounted for 26 per cent of all local authority buildings in 1966 , though by 1970 the figure had fallen to 10 per cent in the aftermath of the Ronan Point disaster in 1968 , in the London Borough of Newham when , following a gas explosion , a structural failure resulted in partial collapse . |
| 11 | By the beginning of spring , the column amount of HNO 3 has fallen to 1.6 x10 16 moleculecm -2 , about half the value at the end of autumn . |
| 12 | Following the economic stagnation of 1987 , the economy had grown ( in nominal gross domestic product-GDP-terms ) by some 10 per cent in 1988 ( according to government estimates ) , aided by a good harvest , while inflation had fallen to 2.3 per cent . |
| 13 | Opinion polls taken in late March , however , continued to suggest that Miyazawa was in serious trouble , his approval rating having fallen to 26.5 per cent , compared with 32.5 per cent in February and 55.5 per cent in November 1991 . |
| 14 | Excluding the volatile food , drink and tobacco sectors , which are influenced by Budget changes , the rate of inflation has fallen to 3.8 per cent . |
| 15 | In the pre-campaign week , the effect of political interest on public awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock was 36 per cent and 45 per cent , respectively ; but by the last fortnight of the campaign its effect had fallen to 17 per cent and 20 per cent respectively . |
| 16 | By 1973 the proportion had fallen to 17 per cent . |
| 17 | 1987/8 had fallen to 47.5 per cent ( 46.3 per cent for England ; and 66.7 per cent for Wales ) . |
| 18 | The shift from manufacturing to service industries has been even more marked in terms of jobs : in 1950 manufacturing employed 35 per cent of the total in civil employment but this had fallen to 26 per cent by 1981 ; at the same time , jobs in the service sector rose from 47 per cent to 60 per cent of total employment . |
| 19 | Since then the rate offered has fallen to 7.6 per cent gross . |
| 20 | Latvians , 77 per cent of the population of their republic before the war , had fallen to 52 per cent in the 1989 census , and to about a third of the population of their capital city , Riga . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman has clearly not observed that in the last year inflation has fallen to 4 per cent . |
| 22 | Inflation for the system as a whole , which had fallen to 4 per cent a year in the first half of 1972 , rose to an annual rate of 7 per cent in the first half of 1973 . |
| 23 | In 1973 , net remittances from Yugoslav workers abroad covered about one-quarter of total payments for imports and net interest , but by 1985 this proportion had fallen to 7.2 per cent . |
| 24 | One week later , the p24 antigen had fallen to 80 pg/mL and WB showed reactivity to HIV-1 p24 and gp160 . |
| 25 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 26 | In 1971 the most wealthy 1 per cent of the population owned 31 per cent of marketable wealth , but by 1979 this proportion had fallen to 22 per cent . |
| 27 | An opinion poll published a few days before the changes had indicated that support for the PCP had fallen to 19 per cent among the electorate , the party 's worst opinion survey result . |
| 28 | Recent changes in large household sizes have been even more spectacular — in 1971 6 per cent of households contained six or more persons : by 1985 , this figure had fallen to 2 per cent ( General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ) . |
| 29 | By June unemployment in western Germany had fallen to 5.3 per cent or 593,000 ( the lowest figure for over 10 years ) , but in eastern Germany it had risen to 9.5 per cent ( 842,504 ) . |
| 30 | There was doubt that this was possible , given that economic growth in 1989 had fallen to 3 per cent , from 5.6 per cent in 1988 . |