Example sentences of "have fallen from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian group bidding for Pearl argues that the UK market 's proportion of individual life and pension business attributable to this method of business has fallen from 25 per cent to 7 per cent . |
| 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 | The company 's share price has fallen from A$1.87 in January to 14 cents on Tuesday . |
| 4 | In its short life the EMS pound has fallen from a peak of DM3.03 to as low as DM2.86 . |
| 5 | The average number of conscripts in training has fallen from 80,000 to about 15,000 . |
| 6 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 7 | The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a result , the number of days lost each year through strikes has fallen from an average 12.9 million in the 1970s to less than a million last year — the lowest figure since records began a century ago . |
| 11 | Investment in scientific research and development has fallen from 0.35% to 0.28% of GDP ( while in Germany it stands at 0.40% ) , not only affecting our higher education system but creating a knock-on effect throughout the British economy . |
| 12 | As a result , the amount of local authority housing built has fallen from more than 65,300 homes in 1979 to a mere 8,600 in 1990 . |
| 13 | Employment among lone mothers ( now 42 per cent ) has fallen from a peak of 49 per cent in 1979–81 although it is now higher than the low of 39 per cent in 1983–85 . |
| 14 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 15 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 16 | Since 1981 for example penetration of the new car market in the US has fallen from 4.4% to 1.5% in 1983 . |
| 17 | The collection from Kenya came from owls roosting in an old well at the ruined town of Gedi , an old Arab town now being reclaimed by coastal forest , and the owls were roosting on ledges where stone has fallen from the walls of the well . |
| 18 | Since this treatment was introduced , the number of fatal overdoses has fallen from a peak of 192 in 1978 , to 152 in 1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 19 | The percentage of drivers that would prefer the old 50 km/h limit has fallen from 46 per cent before , to six per cent after , the experimental period . |
| 20 | At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% . |
| 21 | Yet the downward trend has started ; and a Burmese economic expert reckons that last month the cost of living figure has fallen from 800% above pre-war level to 600% . |
| 22 | As a result the SB level for a couple on the ordinary rate has fallen from 61 per cent of personal disposable income per capita in 1978 to 53 per cent in 1987 . |
| 23 | Their cash has fallen from an average £4.20 a week last year to £4 , a survey reveals today . |
| 24 | Rouble interest rates are sharply negative , and the currency has fallen from 144 to the dollar 12 months ago to 812 now . |
| 25 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |
| 26 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 27 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 28 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 29 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 30 | In England and Wales , the sex ratio at birth has fallen from 106.3in 1971–5 to 104.8in 1988 ( Shaw 1989 ) . |