Example sentences of "fall of [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same period , civil legal aid has moved from £15.7 million to £16.5 million , a fall of nearly 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 2 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 3 | At the other end of the scale , only three counties showed a fall of under 15 per cent , while nine boroughs ( excluding Northampton ) come into this group . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |
| 5 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 6 | As Dr Von Tunzelmann has pointed out , if the same price data are used , with the Lancashire wage data it would produce an increase in real wages from 1750 to 1780 of around 20 per cent , while with southern wage data a fall of around 15 per cent appears . |
| 7 | HPI reported a drop of 15.8 per cent compared with December 1990 , while the SMMT reported a fall of only 7.3 per cent . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , noise levels on the distributor roads have fallen typically by four dB(A) , with falls of around 18 per cent in carbon monoxide levels and 10 and 30 per cent in hydrocarbons and nitrous oxide respectively . |