Example sentences of "have slipped from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income has risen to about £400,000 , but profit has slipped from a peak of almost £60,000 in the mid-1980s to a modest £34,391 in the 1990–91 financial year , on about £350,000 of tenant 's capital deployed . |
| 2 | Since its inception Super-SARA has slipped from being a pioneer project into the safety of nuclear reactor cores after a severe accident to an also-ran . |
| 3 | It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 . |
| 4 | Hallett , who has slipped from seventh to 24th in the provisional world ranking list for next season , missed an easy green in the opening frame then took a back seat as rampant Wattana raced 5–0 ahead . |
| 5 | The words spring unbidden to his mind ; the language he once knew has slipped from his grasp . |
| 6 | In the meantime , USL whose target of ten overseas joint ventures has slipped from the end of 1992 to the end of 1993 ( UX No 380 ) , says its next joint venture will be in either Mexico or Australia . |
| 7 | Gossip has it that NT has slipped from summer to winter 1992 and now again to sometime in the first half of 1993 . |
| 8 | Victoria has slipped from that part of the head where pressing thoughts gather , taking with her a lot of the baggage that was cluttering up the hallways . |
| 9 | Here we are , by a redolent log fire , in a world which has slipped from sight . |
| 10 | Since his 1990 debut , The Unbelievable Truth , he appears to have slipped from obscurity to security without ever becoming popular . |
| 11 | Her maturity seemed to have slipped from her . |
| 12 | The dead German sitting with his back to the wall that I had passed earlier on had slipped from his position , and was now lying with his blond head in the ditch . |
| 13 | There was blood pouring down his face from a head wound , he had slipped from his sitting position and was now lying on his side , his knees drawn up . |
| 14 | Once , a still photograph had slipped from its frame , and lay enticingly just inside the gate . |
| 15 | His feet had slipped from the kicked steps and he was sliding down a water slope that ended , abruptly , at the chasm about twenty-five metres below . |
| 16 | Long ago , he now realised , Nicholas had slipped from his grasp . |
| 17 | I struggled to a sitting position and he handed me the tabloids which had slipped from the end of the bed . |
| 18 | She bustled round finishing her jobs and was just about to leave when she noticed that the crepe paper had slipped from Granny 's frame . |
| 19 | One corpse had slipped from the low single bed to the right of the door and lay staring up at her , the mouth open , the head almost cleft from the body . |
| 20 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 21 | But what had slipped from sight was that these women were n't victims , they were survivors . |
| 22 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 23 | Before Harry could say another word , Nadine had slipped from the stool and moved past him to greet her husband . |
| 24 | He had slipped from my mind during the preoccupations of the intervening weeks . |
| 25 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
| 26 | Many 's the time I 've slipped from top to bottom of the ladder , making a noise like the crack of doom , which was not however , sufficient to wake them ( as I could tell by their uninterrupted snores ) . |
| 27 | The proportion of holidays of four nights and above between October and April has grown from 14% in 1976 to 22% last year , while August holidays have slipped from 24% to 20% and July from 25% to 18% . |
| 28 | The Lancashire team , housed only half a dozen miles from Old Trafford , have slipped from grace after months of political unheaval following their last-gasp failure to beat Barnet to an automatic place in the Football League two years ago . |
| 29 | Before resigning ourselves to permanent depression and a feeling that special needs have slipped from the political agenda , it may be useful to look again at some of the implications for change for the better … |
| 30 | They have slipped from the standards which have earned them recent success and even though West will be without half back stars Jonathan Wrigley and John Stabler , both injured , they are strong favourites . |