Example sentences of "fallen to around [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 there were over 150,000 vehicles authorised for main-line running , but by 1989 the total had fallen to around 40,000 . |
| 2 | Thus , while those favourably disposed towards the United States government had fallen to around 52 per cent by October 1956 ( just before the start of the Suez conflict ) 64 per cent continued to think well of the " American people " . |
| 3 | In the face of poaching , land clearance and logging , the world 's population of wild tigers has fallen to around 7,000 ; three of the eight main species have died out and a fourth is on the verge of extinction . |
| 4 | Thirty African countries have agreed to co-operate in efforts to save the elephant , whose population in Africa has fallen to around 600,000 , compared with over one million a decade ago . |
| 5 | He said that the economy was now stabilizing ; inflation had fallen to around 5 per cent , and unemployment had gone no higher than 2 per cent . |
| 6 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1970s , numbers had fallen to around 1.3 million . |
| 8 | When we reached 6000 feet manifold pressure had fallen to around 23 ’ but our true airspeed had increased to around 155 knots at 10–10.5 gallons per hour . |
| 9 | During 1990 it was believed that the strength of the NPA had fallen to around 19,000 compared with 25,600 in 1988 , as a result of the continuing success of the armed forces in disrupting and demoralizing the guerrillas by targeting the movement 's leadership . |