Example sentences of "has dropped from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although opinion polls still show the centre-right 's candidate , Mr Fernando Collor , leading by five million votes , the difference between them has dropped from 13 to six points in one week . |
| 2 | In South Dakota the number of cattle has dropped from 5.2 million to four million since the bankruptcy crisis of ‘ 85 , and the human population is down 20 per cent . |
| 3 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 4 | In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled . |
| 5 | Per capita consumption of whale meat has dropped from 2 kilograms in 1960 to 0–63 kg in 1978 . |
| 6 | The average tusk weight has dropped from |
| 7 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 8 | The Pinot Noir in the grands crus has dropped from almost 65 to 45% , while the difference in the premiers crus is less than 3% . |
| 9 | Indeed , the company 's staff has dropped from 750 to around 400 , but revenue per head has increased from around £35,000 in 1988 to £75,000 last year . |
| 10 | Food and housing are still the two biggest bills but spending on eating has dropped from 33 per cent of the weekly budget in 1957 to just under 18 per cent . |
| 11 | For instance , the playing time per hour at Wimbledon has dropped from 7.18 minutes in the 1970's to 3.55 minutes , whereas at the US Open , which used to be played on grass , it has actually gone up slightly from 8.14 minutes to 8.18 minutes . |
| 12 | It might pay Β to help α to beat off the challenge , because if he does not the sequence might become γ — α — Β , and Β has dropped from second to third . |
| 13 | According to human-rights workers , the number of people disappearing has dropped from 6,000 a year in 1989 to around 60 last year . |
| 14 | By contrast , the share of industrial economies has dropped from 73% to 54% . |
| 15 | Its vote has dropped from a high of 62% in 1972 to 55% in 1990 . |
| 16 | The share of the richest 1 per cent has dropped from 69 per cent in 1911–13 to 42 per cent in 1960 , and now to 20 per cent . |
| 17 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 18 | The parties ' best current estimate of night traffic is that it has dropped from 190 to 29 movements per night since Norfolk Line 's departure . |
| 19 | Since the introduction of Medicare in 1984 the proportion of the population covered by private insurance has dropped from 62% in 1983 to 42% in 1992 , with a large decrease in coverage among young people . |
| 20 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 21 | In just a few short years , the average hospital stay after a baby has dropped from eight to ten days in 1982 , to just three to four in 1989 . |
| 22 | ‘ Clearly , their major difficulty is finance — the rouble has dropped from parity with the dollar three years ago to 1200 to the $ now . |
| 23 | Today these figures are only 22 per cent and 39 per cent respectively , whilst support for visits from nuclear-armed ships has dropped from 47 to 24 per cent . |
| 24 | There are measures of expenditure , which has dropped from 5.5 per cent of gross domestic product to 4.8 per cent . |
| 25 | Income tax has dropped from 33 per cent . |
| 26 | Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four . |
| 27 | The pilot scheme is being carried out in the Matusadona national park near the Zambian border , where the rhino population has dropped from 150 to 16 in the last five years . |
| 28 | In the last tenyears the workforce of the Rover works has dropped from 12,000 to 5,000 . |
| 29 | Mr Smith has dropped from 30.2pc to 27.9pc . |
| 30 | He said figures from the Durham Training and Enterprise Council show the numbers of training places has dropped from 1,295 in 1990 to 675 at present . |