Example sentences of "[noun] has fallen from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , the number of fatal accidents involving drunken drivers has fallen from 31 per cent to 20 per cent of total accidents in the last ten years . |
| 2 | The Australian group bidding for Pearl argues that the UK market 's proportion of individual life and pension business attributable to this method of business has fallen from 25 per cent to 7 per cent . |
| 3 | The loss per share has fallen from 10 cents a share to 1 cent , but it was the renewed promise of a dividend that helped the shares beat the market trend yesterday . |
| 4 | New figures show that the number of apprentices north of the Border has fallen from 13,600 in March 1981 to 6,300 in March 1990 . |
| 5 | As a result the SB level for a couple on the ordinary rate has fallen from 61 per cent of personal disposable income per capita in 1978 to 53 per cent in 1987 . |
| 6 | The percentage of drivers that would prefer the old 50 km/h limit has fallen from 46 per cent before , to six per cent after , the experimental period . |
| 7 | The number of bird species indigenous to the island has fallen from 32 in 1916 to 13 today , largely as a result of trapping . |
| 8 | Bemac 's workforce has fallen from 215 to 140 in the past year and now the firm has appointed a consultant to advise on the restructuring of the company . |
| 9 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 10 | The average number of conscripts in training has fallen from 80,000 to about 15,000 . |
| 11 | The number of smokers has fallen from 45 per cent . |
| 12 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 13 | Rouble interest rates are sharply negative , and the currency has fallen from 144 to the dollar 12 months ago to 812 now . |
| 14 | More importantly , by reforming the tax structure , the Tories have brought down marginal tax rates further still , even compared with 1979 ; for example for the average earner the marginal rate including VAT has fallen from 49 p.c. then to 45 p.c. today . |
| 15 | The rate of infant mortality per 1,000 live births in England and Wales has fallen from 11.1 in 1981 to 7.9 in 1990 . |