Example sentences of "from [pron] peak " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know what I see from my peak , Jaq . |
| 2 | A quarter of all Japanese bank lending is secured on property , and values are down by some 30 p.c. from their peak . |
| 3 | ICI 's pre-tax profits collapsed from their peak of £1.5bn in 1989 to £843m last year , on sales down from £13.1bn to £12.5bn . |
| 4 | The prices of French properties have dropped by 20% to 30% from their peak , but the appreciation of the franc against the pound has added 10% plus to French prices in sterling terms . |
| 5 | ‘ We de-train them , sort of calm them down from their peak racing tension , and then find suitable homes for them . |
| 6 | Today , Amstrad shares have dropped from their peak of £2.34 to just 28p — less than half what its assets are valued at . |
| 7 | The market 's decline — most artists are 30% to 70% down from their peak — ended in Spring last year . |
| 8 | Birth rates fell somewhat later , from their peak of 35.5 per thousand in 1871–75 to 16.3 in 1931 , before showing remarkable fluctuations after the war — with a peak of 18.8 per thousand in 1964 , a trough of 11.9 in 1977 , and a recent figure of 13.8 ( 1988 ) . |
| 9 | But this is a fine company , and with the shares already down by half from their peak last year is this really the time to sell ? |
| 10 | The Dow , at around 2,600 , is down 400 points from its peak . |
| 11 | The number of sheep has shrunk by 12m from its peak . |
| 12 | The Nikkei index of share prices plunged by 3½ p.c. on both Tuesday and Wednesday , and whatever happened in the early hours of this morning , the index has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year and more than halved from its peak . |
| 13 | The Nikkei index has fallen by 60 per cent from its peak , and is now testing the 17,000 level . |
| 14 | Sums invested are smaller ( the average buyout was down last year to £1.9m from its peak of £2.6m in 1989 . ) |
| 15 | The burden of debt has also declined slightly from its peak 1981 levels , but as a result of curtailed imports rather than increased hard currency earnings . |
| 16 | Debt net of cash has been reduced more than 60% from its peak in the third quarter of 1989 and debt net of cash to capital ratio is now 42% compared with a peak 61% in second quarter 1991 ; the company 's goal is to get to 25% or less . |
| 17 | Drilling activity has fallen almost four-fold from its peak in 1981 . |
| 18 | Overtime pay is down 15% from its peak two years ago ; summer bonuses are expected to fall 1.6% this year , the largest drop on record . |
| 19 | The fog seemed to part without warning , revealing the great headland of Rhuaival over three hundred metres above us , mist trailing like smoke from its peak and even a stray beam of sunshine lighting up the craggy outlines of the cliffs . |
| 20 | Thus the axial stress decreases linearly from its peak value p s at the front face to some low value p s at the rear face . |
| 21 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 22 | However , the collapse in the birth rate from its peak in the mid 1960s , which was primarily responsible for this , was itself a major event with long-term implications . |
| 23 | From its peak combat strength of around 20,000 at the end of the Marcos era in 1985 , the guerrillas were thought to have been reduced to some 13,000 fighters by mid-1992 . |
| 24 | What is even harder for historians to estimate is the extent of the fall in population before 1377 from its peak in the earlier years of the century , whether or not this point was reached around 1300 , the most generally accepted date , or on the eve of the cataclysm caused by the Black Death . |
| 25 | This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor . |