Example sentences of "fallen from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 2 | Mixed-traffic types such as the Brush Class 47 have fallen from favour since they inevitably entail a compromise between a high maximum speed for passenger working and a high tractive effort for freight haulage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the past 10 years , elephant numbers in Africa have fallen from more than 1.2 million to about 600,000 . |
| 6 | The horses trained by O'Brien for this public company have not fulfilled expectations and the shares have fallen from an issue price of 30p to 17p . |
| 7 | A number of people associated with the excesses of the past have already fallen from grace . |
| 8 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 9 | The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent . |
| 10 | Union membership had fallen from over 13 million in 1980 to below 10 million three years later . |
| 11 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 12 | We see only what is falling , never any Edenic first position fallen from . |
| 13 | Added sugar was the prime cause and levels of tooth decay , which had fallen from bad to mediocre , could not fall further until people , and especially children , cut back more on sugar , he said . |
| 14 | The company 's share price has fallen from A$1.87 in January to 14 cents on Tuesday . |
| 15 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 16 | The average number of conscripts in training has fallen from 80,000 to about 15,000 . |
| 17 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 18 | The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect . |
| 19 | Despite intensive drilling , production has steadily fallen from its 1973 level of 9.2m barrels a day ; the government 's energy forecasters think it could be less than 6m b/d by 2000 . |
| 20 | She would have been held personally responsible and would almost certainly have fallen from office . |
| 21 | Sad that his country had fallen from the top of the European industrial league , to joint eighth out of nine , and bitter toward the foolish leaders who had been largely responsible for its decline . |
| 22 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 23 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 24 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 25 | When morning came , the Russian saw he had fallen from the ledge and was hanging upside down , his ice face and the rock face united in a carezza . |
| 26 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 27 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 28 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 29 | Total outstanding loans have fallen from $15.8 billion to $14 billion . |
| 30 | The number of those less optimistic has fallen from 30 p.c. to 24 p.c. , while a significant 9 p.c. say they are uncertain about the outlook and four in 10 are uncertain about their own company 's prospects . |