Example sentences of "[vb pp] fall from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaves were forbidden to fall from the trees because they made a mess , and when the trees took no notice of this they had their leaves glued onto their branches … but that did n't work , so they were fined ; every time they dropped leaves , they had twigs and then branches sawn off . |
| 2 | THE rate of inflation is expected to fall from 4.1 per cent down to a possible 3.8 per cent when official figures are published tomorrow , writes Anne Segall . |
| 3 | UK chemical demand is expected to rise by 2.5 per cent in 1992 , and import growth by 3.5 per cent , while exports are expected to fall from 3.5 to 3 per cent . |
| 4 | In South Asia the total number of people living in poverty is expected to fall from over 500 million today to some 360 million by 2000 , and in East Asia from 290 millions to 60 millions . |
| 5 | Unemployment , however , was expected to fall from 8.1 per cent in 1988 to 7.9 per cent in 1989 due mainly to increased job opportunities in the manufacturing sector , whose contribution to GDP was estimated to have expanded from 24.4 per cent in 1988 to 25.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 6 | In rats the number of cells increases rapidly in the four to six days before birth , and the proliferative compartment — the proportion of β cells able to replicate — is thought to fall from 10% during fetal life to 3% in young adulthood . |
| 7 | The number of cars produced fell from a peak of 800 in 1990 to 650 this year , although production will increase considerably if legislation to allow the company to produce fully-built cars is passed later this year . |
| 8 | Of unmarried women who became pregnant , the proportion who married the father before the baby was born fell from 40% in 1970 to 11% in 1988 , whereas the proportion of pregnancies terminated by abortion rose from 24% to 37% . |
| 9 | Though misgivings had been expressed regarding the possibility of a low turnout , in fact the percentage of votes cast fell from 72% in 1973 to 66% in 1975 . |
| 10 | The proportion of ferrous metal recycled fell from 71 per cent in 1980 to 44 per cent in 1988 . |
| 11 | Crowds had begun to fall from a first-day county average of almost 15,000 in the 1890s to under 10,000 between 1906 and 1914 . |
| 12 | In 1983 gas supplied 8% of energy demand and this is anticipated to rise to over 20% by 1990 by which time dependence on imported oil and gas is planned to fall from 83% in 1983 to 52% in 1990 . |
| 13 | kept falling from the wall . |
| 14 | Now the dismal retailing market has moved in where the OFT has not — pre-tax profits are predicted to fall from £112m last time to a loss of £72m for the year to January 31 . |
| 15 | The total area planted fell from 30,000 to 20,000 hectares , however — largely as a result of the ending of tax incentives . |