Example sentences of "have fallen from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As he knows , it has fallen from high levels . |
| 4 | More importantly , by reforming the tax structure , the Tories have brought down marginal tax rates further still , even compared with 1979 ; for example for the average earner the marginal rate including VAT has fallen from 49 p.c. then to 45 p.c. today . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Indeed the aim of the work was to demonstrate how far he had fallen from ancestral glories , in order that his successors might rectify his errors . |
| 7 | For example , the amount of coal shipped from Derbyshire via the route had fallen from 125,000 tons in 1850 to 73,000 in 1855 , and by 1894 to 4,700 tons . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Catches have fallen from 36,000 tonnes in 1988 to 28,000 tonnes in 1992 and the number of fish is down by two-thirds . |