Example sentences of "fall to as " in BNC.
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| 1 | R Coronæ , in the bowl , is generally well within binocular range , and can just become visible with the naked eye , but when it drops to minimum it may fall to as low as magnitude 15 . |
| 2 | Demobilisation intensified the overstocking of the trade , and by 1818 the depressed weavers were claiming earnings had fallen to as little as 5s ( 25p ) a week for a journeyman and were asking " whether such a paltry sum be sufficient to keep the soul and body together " . |
| 3 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 4 | In fact public expenditure fell to as low as 39% of GDP in 1988/89 , but in the recessionary years of the early 1990s the percentage has started to rise once again . |
| 5 | ( 1976 ) have shown that where lake pH values were below 5 , about 12 species were observed , falling to as few as three in some very acidified lakes . |