Example sentences of "have fallen over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to set the scene , figure 7.1 shows that average household size has fallen over the past century . |
| 2 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 3 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 4 | Below him he could hear the passing wail of sirens , a familiar sound after dark had fallen over the city . |
| 5 | The roads are hairpins , up and down , and they 're , they 're not tarmacked and so erm you often saw er buses that had fallen over the sides down into the river or that just were on their side , and that erm that obviously there 'd been accidents . |
| 6 | It was a dark night , and on the beach they had fallen over the dead body of a man . |
| 7 | The minute she had entered the room a grim , tense atmosphere had fallen over the Queen 's solar . |
| 8 | A stygian gloom had fallen over the world . |
| 9 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |
| 10 | There is no better example of the logical and ideological confusions into which we have fallen over the charging issue than in pre-school provision . |