Example sentences of "have fallen from [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of bird species indigenous to the island has fallen from 32 in 1916 to 13 today , largely as a result of trapping . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The average number of conscripts in training has fallen from 80,000 to about 15,000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rouble interest rates are sharply negative , and the currency has fallen from 144 to the dollar 12 months ago to 812 now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The number of unions that management have to negotiate with has fallen from seven to one and Short 's claims much better labour relations . |
| 9 | The value of the deposit at the end of two months would have fallen from 1,015,007.80 to 1,014,621.23 , which represents a loss of 386.57 . |
| 10 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 11 | The marsupial 's population is believed to have fallen from 400,000 in the mid-1980s to around 200,000 today , and the rapid decline is continuing . |
| 12 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that he appeared to have fallen from one of the offices on the third floor , but declined to surmise why he was visiting the Admiralty . |
| 13 | Membership of extreme left-wing organizations was estimated to have fallen from 41,000 in 1989 to 29,500 in 1990 , largely because of the collapse of the ( western ) German Communist Party ( DKP ) after the fall of the East German regime . |
| 14 | John Flook , acting chief executive of Darlington Health Authority , said yesterday that two year waiting lists had fallen from 74 at the end of December to 24 last month . |
| 15 | Tiger numbers in India , which had fallen from 40,000 at the beginning of the century to around 2,000 at the end of the 1960s , rose to 4,300 by 1989 , said officials . |
| 16 | John Cummings , defending the seat for Labour , said the number working in the coal industry there had fallen from 11,799 in 1979 to 2,300 now . |
| 17 | A local authority report on changes between 1979 and 1987 indicates that of the 16 600 pre-1919 dwelling in North Tyneside , the number without amenities had fallen from 2800 in 1979 to 262 in 1987 . |
| 18 | Japanese and Polish scientists have studied samples of cod-liver oil taken from fish and found that levels of DDT had fallen from 25 micrograms per gram in 1974 to 3 micrograms in 1989 , and levels of PCBs had fallen from 18 to 7 micrograms over the same period . |
| 19 | In January Norbert Blüm , the Labour and Social Affairs Minister , had announced that unemployment had crept above 2,000,000 in December 1989 , but taking into account the arrival of some 700,000 ethnic Germans the overall unemployment rate had fallen from 8.4 to 7.9 per cent . |
| 20 | By 14 hours after admission the platelet count had fallen from 209 to 134×10/l , the blood urea concentration had risen to 16.2 mmol/l , and the creatinine concentration from 392 to 418 µmol/l . |
| 21 | He pointed out that while the estimated number of drug users in the USA had fallen from 23,000,000 in 1985 to 14,000,000 in 1988 , evidence suggested that drug users now employed more types of drugs more frequently . |
| 22 | Speaking at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , he quoted a recent study which indicated that the ratio of exports to imports of environmental technology had fallen from 8:1 to 1:1 in the 1980s . |
| 23 | Between 1851 and 1861 , for example , in 821 rural parishes covered by the investigation the population had increased from 305567 to 322064 , while the number of houses had fallen from 69225 to 66109 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The same hospital said that road deaths had fallen from three in February 1982 to nil in February this year . |
| 26 | The number of Directors had fallen from 3 to none and that of District Surveyors from 4 to 2 . |
| 27 | Over the last three years , tiger numbers have fallen from 44 to 15 , raising fears for their viability . |
| 28 | Average numbers of children per family in developing countries have fallen from six in 1960 to four today , thanks to growing use of contraceptives , according to the latest John Hopkins University Population Report . |
| 29 | First admissions to hospital for the former have fallen from 14 per 100,000 population in 1970 to 9 per 100,000 in 1978 . |
| 30 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |