I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bomb falls on sth
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A bomb fell on the cathedral during the war.
a burden falls on sb
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The tax burden falls most heavily upon the poorest people.
a currency rises/falls (= it goes up or down in relation to other currencies )
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The currency fell from 144 to the dollar twelve months ago to 812.
a deal falls through (= does not happen as arranged )
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The cost was simply too high, so the deal fell through.
a dramatic fall/drop/decline
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Between these years there was a dramatic fall in youth employment.
a drop/fall in temperature
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At night there is a dramatic drop in temperature.
a fall of snow (= an occasion when it snows )
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We had our first fall of snow in mid-November.
a fall/decline/drop in exports
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There has been a decline in exports and an increase in oil prices.
a fall/drop in prices
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Poor demand led to a sharp drop in prices.
a fall/drop in sales
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Some jobs may be cut following a big drop in sales.
a fall/drop in value
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There was a sudden drop in the value of oil.
a fall/reduction in unemployment
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We are hoping to see a fall in unemployment.
a joke falls flat (= people don’t find a joke funny )
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His practical jokes usually fell flat.
a level falls/goes down/decreases
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Pollution levels have fallen slightly.
a number falls/drops/goes down/decreases/declines
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The number of new houses being built is falling steadily.
a population falls/declines/decreases
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The population in many rural areas has continued to fall.
a price goes down/falls/decreases
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In real terms, the price of clothes has fallen over the last ten years.
a rating falls
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His rating fell to only 28%.
a record falls (= is beaten )
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Another record will fall on the last day of the season, if Arsenal win their final game.
a regime collapses/falls (= loses power )
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Authoritarian regimes tend to collapse in times of economic hardship.
a rising/falling rate
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A falling mortality rate led to a gradual increase in the proportion of the aged in the population.
a shadow falls somewhere (= appears on something )
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The footsteps came closer, and a shadow fell across the table.
A...hush fell over
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A sudden hush fell over the crowd.
an empire falls/collapses (= loses power suddenly )
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In A.D.476, the western part of the Empire collapsed.
as easy as pie/ABC/falling off a log (= very easy )
come/fall under the influence of sb/sth (= be influenced by someone or something )
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They had come under the influence of a religious sect.
come/fall within the scope of sth (= be included in it )
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Banks and building societies fall within the scope of the new legislation.
consumption falls/decreases/goes down
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Coal consumption has fallen dramatically.
curls fall/tumble (= hang down )
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The child's golden curls fell around her shoulders.
darkness falls/comes ( also darkness descends literary )
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As darkness fell, rescue workers had to give up the search.
decrease/fall by half (= become 50% less )
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Share prices fell by half.
demand falls (= becomes lower )
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Demand for the products has fallen in the last six months.
dive/fall/jump/plunge head-first
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I fell head-first down the stairs.
earnings fall (= become lower )
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The company’s earnings fell by 21% in the fourth quarter.
expenditure falls
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Government expenditure on scientific research has fallen in the last few years.
exports fall/decline/drop
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Exports of gas and oil continued to fall while imports of raw materials have risen.
fall about laughing British English (= laugh a lot )
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He saw the look on my face and he just fell about laughing.
fall behind on the payments ( also fall behind with the payments British English ) (= not make payments when you should )
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I’d run up nearly £4,000 in debt, and was beginning to fall behind with the payments.
fall behind with the rent/get behind on the rent (= fail to pay your rent on time )
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You could be evicted if you fall behind with the rent.
fall below/fall short of sb's expectations (= be worse that someone hoped or expected )
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Our profits last year fell below expectations.
fall below/fall short of sb's expectations (= be worse that someone hoped or expected )
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Our profits last year fell below expectations.
fall far/a long way/well short of sth
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Facilities in these schools fall far short of the standards required.
fall from a peak
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Visitor numbers have fallen from a peak of 1.8 million per year to under 1 million.
fall guy
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Browne claims that the company was simply looking for a fall guy.
fall ill formal (= become ill )
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Louise fell ill while she was on holiday.
fall in love (= start being in love )
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I fell in love with her the minute I saw her.
fall into a deep/long etc sleep (= start sleeping deeply, for a long time etc )
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He lay down on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.
fall into abeyance (= no longer be used )
fall into disrepair
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buildings allowed to fall into disrepair
fall into...snare
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I didn’t want to fall into the same snare again.
fall off a ladder
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One of the builders fell off a ladder and broke his leg.
fall outside the scope of sth (= not be included in it )
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His later exploits in Persia fall outside the scope of this book.
fall short of a goal/target/ideal
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The economy fell short of the Treasury’s target of 2% growth.
fall short of a target (= achieve less than you wanted to )
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Car production at the plant has fallen short of its target by 5%.
fall short of the mark (= are not good enough )
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One or two songs on the album are interesting, but most fall short of the mark .
fall short of your ideals (= not be as good as you think something should be )
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In appearance, she fell somewhat short of his ideals.
fall to/hit/reach etc a new low (= be worth less than ever before )
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The euro has fallen to a new low against the dollar.
fall vacant British English (= become vacant )
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He was offered the position of headmaster when it fell vacant.
fall within the ambit of sth
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areas falling within the ambit of our research
fall/come into a category
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The data we collected fell into two categories.
fall/come to bits (= separate into many different parts because of being old or damaged )
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The book was so old that I was afraid it would fall to bits.
fall/drop sharply
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Oil prices fell sharply.
fall/drop/sink to the floor
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He let his cigarette fall to the floor.
fallen leaves (= that have fallen off the trees )
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The children were jumping in piles of fallen leaves.
fallen on hard times (= did not have much money )
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He had clearly fallen on hard times .
fall/get behind with the mortgage (= be unable to pay enough money each month )
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He fell behind with the mortgage when he lost his job.
fall/get into arrears (= become late with payments )
fall/go down in value
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There is a risk that the shares may fall in value.
falling asleep at the wheel (= falling asleep while driving )
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One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel .
falling demand (= decreasing )
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the falling demand for coal
falling star
fall/sit down etc with a bump
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Rose fell, landing with a bump.
fall/take sick formal (= become ill, especially with something serious or that will last a long time )
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He fell sick and died within a matter of weeks.
fall/walk into a trap
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Police had set a trap for hooligans at the match.
fell headlong into
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I fell headlong into a pool of icy water.
fell into disfavour
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Coal fell into disfavour because burning it caused pollution.
fell into disrepute
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This theory fell into disrepute in the fifties.
fell into disuse
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The building eventually fell into disuse .
fell into...deep sleep
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He lay down and fell into a deep sleep .
fell on unresponsive ears (= was not listened to )
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His warning fell on unresponsive ears .
fell overboard
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One of the crew fell overboard and drowned.
fell short of...expectations
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Shares in the company dropped 26p yesterday, as profits fell short of City expectations .
fell silent (= became silent )
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The crowd fell silent when the President appeared.
fell silent
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At last the guns fell silent.
fell...against the yen (= decreased in value in relation to the yen )
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The dollar fell by 24 percent against the yen between 1970 and 1973.
finger of suspicion...fell on
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The finger of suspicion immediately fell on Broderick.
free fall
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The spacecraft is now in free fall towards the Earth.
go/fall into a trance
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She went into a deep hypnotic trance.
go/fall into decline (= become less important, successful etc )
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At the beginning of the century the cloth trade was going into decline.
imports fall/drop
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Imports of consumer goods fell sharply in December.
increase/rise/fall etc in production
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a drop in oil and gas production
inflation falls
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Inflation fell by 0.5% last month.
light falls on/across etc sth
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The light fell on her book.
night falls written (= it starts to become dark )
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It grew colder as night fell.
profits fall
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The group saw profits fall from £24m to £17.8m.
rising/falling unemployment
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Rising unemployment led to more crime.
sales fall/drop/go down (= become lower )
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European sales have fallen by 12%.
sb’s face falls (= they look sad or disappointed )
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Her face fell when she saw who it was.
sb’s gaze falls on sb/sth (= someone looks at someone or something )
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Fisher’s gaze fell on Mr. Grant.
sb’s glance falls on sth (= someone looks at something )
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Geoff’s glance fell on the broken vase.
sb’s income falls/goes down
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Average income fell by one third during this period.
sb’s mouth falls/drops open (= in surprise )
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‘Me?’ she said, her mouth dropping open.
shares fall/go down (= their value decreases )
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Shares fell sharply on the London Stock Market yesterday.
silence falls/descends (= a silence begins )
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A sudden silence fell over the room.
sink/fall/drop to your knees (= move so that you are kneeling )
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Tim fell to his knees and started to pray.
slide/fall/descend into anarchy
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The nation is in danger of falling into anarchy.
slip/fall/settle into a routine (= get into a routine without making any difficulty )
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The team slipped quickly into a routine.
slip/lapse/fall/sink into a coma (= go into one )
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Brett slipped into a coma from which he never awakened.
snow falls
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Outside in the dark, snow was falling silently.
standards fall/slip/decline
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School inspectors say that educational standards have fallen.
suspicion falls on sb
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Suspicion fell on Jenkins who had been seen near the scene of the crime.
the cost falls/goes down
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Airline costs have fallen considerably.
the fall/collapse of an empire (= the sudden end of an empire )
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After the battle of Waterloo, the collapse of Napoleon's empire was inevitable.
the leaves fall
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All the leaves had fallen off the tree.
the rain falls
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The rain was still falling steadily.
the rise and fall of sb/sth
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The exhibition tells the story of the rise and fall of the Etruscan civilisation.
the temperature falls/drops
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Last winter, the temperature fell below freezing on only five days.
the value of sth falls
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The value of your investment may fall.
throw sth into disarray/fall into disarray
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The delay threw the entire timetable into disarray.
tripped and fell
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He tripped and fell .
turnover rose/fell
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Turnover rose 9%.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
sharply
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Yet the jobless rate is falling sharply .
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After that, volumes were expected to fall sharply .
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Sickness absence overall fell sharply last year by almost 0.5 percent of working time from the 1991 figure of 4.0 percent.
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The Potomac was clean again, a haven for windsurfers, and certain airborne pollutants had fallen sharply .
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Sales of units fell sharply after the crash of October 1987.
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Many technology stocks have fallen sharply in recent weeks because of concerns over the future of Internet advertising.
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Enrolments at both primary and secondary levels fell sharply in the early 1980s before beginning to rise steadily from 1984 onwards.
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Bombay: Prices fell sharply for the second day running.
■ NOUN
category
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Five patients and one control fell into the borderline category .
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Those management approaches which are presented in in-service education occasionally fall into the category of those which describe organized anarchy.
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Less than one percent of homicides recorded nationwide last year fell into this category , McCrary said.
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It can be argued that many projects fall into this category , perhaps usefully called development engineering.
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As far as his or her departmental duties are concerned a minister's work will fall into roughly four categories .
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Tien said members of those races in great numbers fall into the disadvantaged category .
darkness
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He read it carefully, the lucid language and poetry of argument clearing and settling his mind. Darkness fell .
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Finally darkness fell , and no new soldiers appeared.
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Yet there was a sealed-in-cosiness when darkness fell early and the lights came on.
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It looked like darkness would fall long before evening.
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Just as darkness fell a man and a woman came and announced that I was sitting in their seats.
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As darkness fell in late afternoon, rescue workers began recovering and identifying bodies with flashlights.
disuse
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Many of these local mills remain in name alone, having fallen into disuse and demolition.
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Because of the problems with false prophecy, the gift of prophecy itself eventually fell into disuse and sometimes disrepute.
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The National Association of Gay Switchboards has fallen into disuse .
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As a result there was water, water everywhere except in the Bath House, which fell into disuse and subsequently burned.
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The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s, and the bridge fell into disuse .
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It was a commentary on heroism and how it has fallen into disuse .
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It seems that the procedure, just outlined, for the creation of new criminal offences has fallen into disuse .
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Many large-scale competitor data bases, especially those on mainframes, have fallen into disuse .
ear
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This wide disposition yielded felicitous effects of colour and tone which always fell pleasingly on the ear .
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The modulated, rhythmic braying of that mule fell upon his ears .
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But his words fell on unresponsive ears .
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Invitations by Paredes to the various governors to second his plan fell on deaf ears .
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The house is falling down around our ears .
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But my suggestions fell on deaf ears .
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As he did so, a fine trickle of sawdust appeared to fall from his ear to the floor.
expectations
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The operating performance of these reactors has also consistently fallen below expectations .
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Digital Equipment Corp. this week warned Wall Street its third-quarter earnings will fall below analysts' expectations .
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If this and other resolutions fell well below popular expectations , their implementation since then has invited even greater derision.
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The company said its earnings would fall short of previous expectations mainly because of lower earnings from its Gulf Printing unit.
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The trainers suggest that, as guards, they fell short of expectations .
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Silicon Graphics said its earnings for the fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 31 would fall short of expectations .
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Since Christmas, however, demand has fallen below expectations .
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Yields on government treasury bills are falling amid expectations of a second rate cut within three months, he said.
face
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As the youth smoked a cigarette, shadows fell across his face .
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How stupid to fall on your face .
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Golden flowers danced before his eyes as he fell forward, his face banging the brick floor.
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The tramp had fallen forward on to his face , his body twitching madly, blood spreading out around his head.
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But once the ball tips, the game falls flat on its face faster than a top-ranked team after a first-round upset.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face .
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Her thick hair fell forward over her face .
floor
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Her nightdress fell to the floor as she reached the door.
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The umbrella fell to the floor with a sharp crack of the ferrule on the tile.
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He says that he felt strange and fell on to the floor .
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One by one, Hinn touched them and they fell to the floor .
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Now the challenge is to mould a new identity for international car racing by Timothy Collings Cigarette ash fell to the floor .
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When he ran his hand over it, a sprinkle of grit fell to the floor .
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It blew her hair across her face, and some books fell on the floor .
ground
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Swarf smiled in triumph, letting the body fall on to the ground .
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Not finished, he slammed into reverse so quickly that she fell to the ground .
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Joseph's words fell on stony ground .
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He just let the pits fall on the ground below.
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Failing payment of the £30 the Company's promise would fall to the ground .
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A long shadow fell across the ground in front of me.
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Whatever it was precipitated an avalanche of other objects which thundered down around him as Charles fell sprawling to the ground .
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As he attempted to dismount, he seemed to lose strength, and half fell to the ground .
hair
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When she tossed her head her hair fell around her shoulders and upper arms in a lovely auburn cascade.
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The hair and skin had fallen from the head, and the flesh from the bones-all alive with disgusting maggots.
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He developed cancer, and despite radium treatment - after which all his hair fell out - he was declared terminally ill.
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Her black hair fell to her shoulders.
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Her hair fell forward into the frying steak and potatoes; she brushed her hair back with a fat-coated hand.
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Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out.
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His Straight brown hair fell half-combed across his forehead, and his clothes were clean but rumpled.
hand
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In those days, the sweat would fall off my hands and I'd hear it hitting the floor.
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He lurched sideways and fell to his hands and knees on the stone steps.
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In these circumstances, the Anti-Corn law movement fell into the able hands of Richard Cobden.
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Finally, this charming corner has fallen into the right hands .
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The revolver nearly fell from my hands , and my whole body froze with fear.
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The power to play or not fell into the hands of program director Crocker and his peers around the country.
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Not unless they fell into Morton's hands .
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I was endlessly letting things fall out of my hands .
index
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The Nikkei index has fallen by 60 percent from its peak, and is now testing the 17,000 level.
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The Nasdaq Composite Index fell for a third day, dropping as much as 10. 53 to 988. 29.
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The FTSE100 index fell to its lowest level of the year.
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The Nikkei 300 index fell 0. 45, or 0. 15 percent, to 297. 38.
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The stock market, whose index had fallen throughout 1990, lost a further 7.5 points in response to the package.
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The Bloomberg New York Metro index fell 2. 04, or 1. 57 percent, to 127. 43.
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The Nasdaq Composite Index fell for a third day, dropping 8. 60 to 990. 22.
knee
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She fell on her knees before them and begged them to take her with them.
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She stumbled and fell to her knees .
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When Blue Beard returns, he falls to his knees and hugs his wife.
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Francis Lee received a little kick and fell on his knees .
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He fell to his knees and greedily sucked up the water like a thirsty horse.
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Too fast for his shorter legs and he fell on his knees .
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The woman in the blue raincoat fell to her knees , still clinging with one hand to the push-chair.
love
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Now, she had fallen in love .
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It was just like falling in love .
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The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship.
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Eventually, with the help of magic and fate, Ashputtel and the prince fell in love and married.
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Having fallen in love with each other, the couple are now setting up home together at lightning speed.
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Kathy had fallen in love with an old blue Victorian across from Edgewood Park.
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I am the same woman you fell in love with then, the very same.
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In the one year, 1920-the year Amelia fell in love with flying-fifteen aerial mail pilots died.
market
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The Hong Kong stock market fell by 5 percent after Mr Li's attack.
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How could Vinik unwind such large positions without the markets for those stocks falling in on themselves and on Magellan?
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So if the market falls , he is protected by the option.
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Gas utility companies fell after the government said it was considering allowing non-gas companies to enter the retail gas market .
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One of those things was that the stock market might fall , oh, say, 20 percent this year.
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Keynes's theory of labour market adjustment has fallen victim to widespread ignorance and neglect.
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That makes a difference when it comes to refinancing the bonds, or locking in lower payments when bond market rates fall .
piece
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It should fall out in one piece .
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And then he fell into two pieces .
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The metal bubbled for an eye-aching moment, and then the door fell in two pieces in the passage beyond.
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After he left, I fell to pieces .
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He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces .
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Supposing the union fell to pieces , these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break.
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The Soviet Union is falling to pieces; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out.
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The media seemed to be willing the marriage to fall to pieces .
points
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In October the index fell below 20,000 points , leading to government intervention to support the market.
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The Nasdaq fell 32. 78 points , or 1. 9 percent, at 1, 666. 88.
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It fell 7. 77 points , or 0. 49 percent, to 1, 592. 21.
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In relation to the rest of the country, however, the share of the top six cities fell by 2.5 percentage points .
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She was proved wrong, but when her prediction first became known, the Dow fell 44 points .
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What do you call it when the Dow Jones falls 554 points in less than a day?
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Its yield, a sensitive gauge of forecasts for growth and inflation, fell 4 basis points to 5. 97 percent.
price
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If Hydro trials prove successful and it is included on more Chafer sprayers, the price is likely to fall considerably.
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If share prices fall over that time, a safety net guarantees you will get your money back.
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Wireless's share price fell as much as 5 pence to 453.
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Now the price has fallen and future purchases by discount houses will be at the new, lower rate.
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Demand is so slow that the price index fell to 40. 8 % in December from 44. 5 %.
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Their prices might fall , hurting commodity producers.
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Worldwide, stock prices fell in dollar terms.
production
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Officials blamed the fall on a collapse in the stock market, lower industrial production and falling domestic investment.
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Sugar production fell to a record low of 129,920 tonnes in 1990 and bauxite production was 15 percent below target.
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With production falling , factories stop ordering new equipment.
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Agricultural production fell by 10.8 percent, largely due to the effects of the country's worst drought in 50 years.
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Summer grain production this year has fallen by nearly 10 %, according to the ministry of agriculture.
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Many analysts expect production to fall again in 1996.
profit
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Special engineering activities suffered with the depressed aerospace and defence markets, profits falling from £14 million to £12 million.
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Each warned after the stock market closed on Friday that profits will fall below analysts' forecasts.
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Operating profit fell to £10.5m from £11.1m in 1991.
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Operating profit fell an undisclosed amount.
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First half profit before tax fell by 12% to £44.5m at Laporte; eps fell by 6% to 18.8p.
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In 1995 pretax profit fell 6. 51 percent to 21. 97 billion pesetas.
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Taxable profits fell from £7.81m to £1.17m in the year to 30 June on group sales down about £20m to £91m.
rain
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The camera watches, looking in and looking out. Rain falls through the shell of the echoing house.
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A deluge of tropical rain fell on us an hour later.
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The rain had started to fall and the mechanics were busy preparing the machine for what would be a wet race.
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The 0. 01 inch of rain that fell in the Valley in December was the least for that month since 1981.
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The sky was low and pregnant with rain which would fall as soon as the wind dropped.
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The rain fell on empty streets.
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A steady gray rain was falling .
rate
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First the rate fell from 6.2 rubles to the dollar to 6.5.
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Indeed, many investors believe that long-term interest rates could fall to 5. 5 % in the coming months.
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Yet the jobless rate is falling sharply.
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The unemployment rate fell to 4. 9 percent, a 23-year low, in April.
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The rate may fall below that, depending on the general trend of interest rates.
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Short-term rates fell to below 2 % from 4 %.
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If the inflation rate subsequently falls below the level allowed for a surplus of funds may result.
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New bond issues rose as interest rates fell during the last three months of 1995.
sale
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It widened still further in the 1980s as sales of the Mirror fell .
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Even Talbots same-store sales fell an unexpected 4. 7 percent.
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By the mid-Seventies sales had fallen dramatically.
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The company blamed weak sales and falling chip prices for its microprocessors.
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Estimates suggest that since then, the number of house sales has fallen by about 40 percent.
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Comparable-store sales fell 0. 9 % for this period, Roberds said.
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Thanks to recession, total domestic sales of personal computers fell by 8% in the year to March.
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Orders slowed, causing sales to fall off dramatically.
share
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Bank shares fell 0. 87 percent as a group.
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Earnings per share fell to 15.6p from 24.1p but the 1991 dividend total of 14.85p per share is to be maintained.
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Motorola shares fell 3 1 / 4 to 53.
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Goldman Sachs's shares fell 5 % after it announced the sale of 40m shares held by former partners.
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The shares have been falling since September, when they traded at nearly 60.
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Earnings per share fell by 99.7% to 0.3 pence.
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Inverness shares fell 1 / 8 to 8 1 / 8.
snow
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Outside snow began to fall in large fat flakes.
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Outside, a light snow had begun to fall , whitening the streets with downy flakes.
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Heavy snow had fallen in Frome the day before that, the deepest since 1767, and conditions were dismal.
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And for a very few minutes I listen to the whisper of tiny tinkling snow crystals falling now in ever denser sheets.
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No more snow had fallen , the sky was still overcast but the air was crisp and a little warmer.
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Around noon, the snow started falling again.
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Snow to go: Weathermen predict no more snow will fall in the region over the coming days.
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Some 65 inches of snow have fallen on the city so far this winter, he said.
temperature
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As the temperature falls the process slows, and below 10oC the development from egg to L3 usually can not take place.
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In response, body temperature falls , metabolism slows, and we prepare to drop off.
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When temperatures fall to freezing, they're ready to go.
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In fact, areas where the outdoor temperature routinely falls to about 15 degrees are not good candidates for heat pumps.
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As core temperature starts to fall , self-regulating mechanisms start to restore equilibrium.
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The temperature had fallen below zero.
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The moors got higher, the weather worsened, and temperatures fell .
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Hypothermia weakens muscles and slows heart rate, which may stop if body temperature falls below 90 degrees.
trap
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At least Morton would never fall into that trap ... But it was all moonshine.
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I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.
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They shouldn't fall into the Spurs trap of mounting debts and asset-stripping sales of star players.
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They are waiting to see if you fall into the trap .
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During the 90s Washington fell into the trap of allowing events to dictate the relationship, with increasingly destabilising results.
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Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.
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The tendency to keep falling into the subjectivity trap usually brings with it a tendency to confuse goals with methods.
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One who thinks she fell into that trap is 76-year-old Josephine Woods.
unemployment
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The unemployment rate fell to 4. 9 percent, a 23-year low, in April.
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There has been a return to growth, and unemployment is falling .
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In 1996, unemployment in the region fell below 4 percent for the first time in years.
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Mr. Corbyn Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987, but it has increased a great deal in the past year.
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The Minister will be pleased to know that unemployment in my constituency fell by 41 last month.
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For example, it forecast an increase in unemployment of 3,000 for 1986-87; in fact unemployment fell by 6,800.
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Hitting the Poor the Hardest Unemployment does not fall gently and evenly across the whole population.
■ VERB
begin
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A light rain began to fall .
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In poor countries, however, incomes did not rise as death rates began to fall .
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Then, suddenly, I step off a ledge and begin to fall .
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Even as he looked the first drops of rain began to fall , whipped into a flurry by a chill little wind.
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Attendance at the mission began to fall off.
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As he walked along, light rain began to fall .
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Outside, the first snow had begun falling .
let
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Swarf smiled in triumph, letting the body fall on to the ground.
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Those on a losing streak will jump from casino to casino, letting the chips fall where they may.
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Twist some lengths of red ribbon and let them fall down the sides of the cake.
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The rector noticed that Cynthia Coppersmith was letting her tears fall without shame.
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Maureen hefted a bright chain and let it fall to the counter.
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Roy shrugged off his own coat while still sitting, letting it fall over the back of his chair.
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Would they let him fall into our arms if they thought he knew important things?
rise
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It was as if the sounds were rising and falling with a supernatural air current.
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A total of 312 shares rose , 494 fell , and 337 were unchanged.
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It would not be expected to depend particularly on the frequency, the rate at which the waves rose and fell .
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Across the table, Pearl rose and fell in her chair like she kept seeing something out on the water.
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In deep antiquity, vast, sprawling empires rose and fell , usually the result of happenstance rather than deliberation.
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Hsu Fu rose and fell on big, though not yet dangerous, seas.
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He had grey hair and a black moustache which rose and fell as he breathed.
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Strange and beautiful and terrible empires rose and fell , and passed on their knowledge to their successors.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fallen woman
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She was a fallen woman, and her hair knew it.
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Whatever she can urge in mitigation, she is a fallen woman for the rest of her life.
be coming/falling apart at the seams
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The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams .
be/fall head over heels in love
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It wasn't just the usual liaison: the two of them fell head over heels in love.
be/fall hopelessly in love (with sb)
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And, unknown to her father, I fell hopelessly in love with her.
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I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.
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James Pawsey, the Tory member for Rugby, also appeared to be hopelessly in love.
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She was falling hopelessly in love with the man.
be/fall prey to sb/sth
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After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
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All these animals, and others, had fallen prey to the apprentice hunters.
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It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends.
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Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.
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The magnificent castle was doomed to fall prey to the hand of desolation.
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The older trees grow spindly and, their immune systems weakened, fall prey to infestation of beetles and disease.
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These refugees fell prey to marauding gangs, even to troopers, or to one another.
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With aid supplies almost always out of reach, the boys became weak, and stragglers fell prey to wild animals.
fall apart
fall asleep
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Dad always falls asleep in front of the TV after Sunday lunch.
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Has Monica fallen asleep yet?
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Her three-year-old daughter fell asleep while we talked.
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I must have fallen asleep with the light on last night.
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One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
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Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President; no-one notices - they're all asleep too.
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Had they fallen asleep , the firemen say, not one of them would have survived.
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He falls asleep in the chair, wakes up startled, afraid for a moment to move.
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He fell asleep dreaming though that Rupert Quashie went to the beach and pushed Collymore down with his gun.
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He seemed to fall asleep , leaning heavily on to Cameron.
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I'd fallen asleep , and now I was awake.
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I fell asleep , and the next thing I knew, some one was waking me.
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Suddenly he gave a frightened start, for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away.
fall flat
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But the hopes fell flat , and private funding for vaccine work is drying up.
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He has been Navajo president for one year, and his efforts to decentralize tribal government so far have fallen flat .
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However, if your suggestion falls flat , he may not be ready to try another until the 21st century.
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Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
fall flat on your/sth's face
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She fell flat on her face getting out of the car.
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The last time I wore high-heeled shoes I fell flat on my face outside a restaurant.
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As we were going out to the car Babe slipped and fell flat on her face.
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At last, after several near misses, I fall flat on my face.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
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But once the ball tips, the game falls flat on its face faster than a top-ranked team after a first-round upset.
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It is also a nation waiting for her to fall flat on her face.
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Writers strive for a universal experience distilled from personal memories and tend to fall flat on their faces.
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Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
fall into line/bring sb into line
fall into place
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Another piece of the jigsaw had just fallen into place .
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But just in time, it fell into place .
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I am like the painter of that mosaic, the small pieces are falling into place and I need your help.
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Mechanisms to ensure gender balance in appointed government bodies were also falling into place .
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That was our greatest moment together, I think, the moment when our whole future fell into place at last.
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The route had by now fallen into place .
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Yet it was not until researchers extended the same effort to the oceans that the bigger tectonic picture fell into place .
fall into ruin
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The 18th century mansion has fallen into ruin .
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In 1685 the castle was burnt by the Duke of Argyll and fell into ruin .
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Miles of poverty with modern adobe dwellings either being built or falling into ruin .
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Unemployment runs at more than 50 %, and most factories have fallen into ruin .
fall into step (with sb)
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Instead he fell into step , and they went on from there.
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Once again, Blue falls into step with Black, perhaps even more harmoniously than before.
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She walked to the door, trying her hardest to ignore the man who fell into step beside her.
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The Clinton administration, after some hesitation, fell into step behind Paris.
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The great horse Koulash galloped forward to join the Tsar's horses, and fell into step with them.
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The senator fell into step beside me while some of Bonefish's smaller children followed at a safe distance.
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They fell into step on the slush-covered path.
fall into/avoid the trap of doing sth
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But do not fall into the trap of doing something I saw recently.
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Don't fall into the trap of comparing your wages and conditions with other volunteers and development workers.
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Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.
▪
During the 90s Washington fell into the trap of allowing events to dictate the relationship, with increasingly destabilising results.
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Journalists can fall into the trap of being hypercritical.
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She was not going to fall into the trap of thinking she wanted Vitor as Vitor.
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So answer this question truthfully, lest your smart organization fall into the trap of continuing to outsmart itself.
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When we tie it to jobs, or to survival needs, we fall into the trap of mechanistic literacy.
fall off the wagon
fall on deaf ears
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As rioting continued, Mayor Warren appealed for calm, but his words fell on deaf ears.
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His pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears.
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The workers' demand for a wage increase has fallen on deaf ears.
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Their requests fell on deaf ears.
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Arguments that some of the skills practised by pupils are obsolete fall on deaf ears, or are heeded only very slowly.
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But my suggestions fell on deaf ears.
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Invitations by Paredes to the various governors to second his plan fell on deaf ears.
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Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financial ruin have fallen on deaf ears.
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They formulated a programme of demands, but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd.
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Those words fell on deaf ears.
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Until Friday, such complaints appeared to fall on deaf ears at the Treasury.
fall on stony ground
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Alan's charming smile fell on stony ground with her.
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Joseph's words fell on stony ground.
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Some initiatives have already fallen on stony ground, but, as we see in subsequent features, others keep coming.
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Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope.
fall short of sth
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Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards.
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By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
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Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.
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On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
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Reality has a way of falling short of the ideal.
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The results fell short of eight analysts' forecasts of profit between 130 million and 127 million pounds.
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The trainers suggest that, as guards, they fell short of expectations.
fall to pieces
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If reforms are not carried out soon, the economy will simply fall to pieces .
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Stacy would fall to pieces if she knew Gary was cheating on her.
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The vase fell to pieces as soon as it hit the floor.
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After he left, I fell to pieces .
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As a result, now that the autumn rains were here, it was already showing signs of falling to pieces .
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He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces .
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I suppose it's just about falling to pieces .
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Supposing the union fell to pieces , these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break.
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The house was filthy, she realized, practically falling to pieces .
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The media seemed to be willing the marriage to fall to pieces .
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The Soviet Union is falling to pieces; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out.
fall victim to sb/sth
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And dying for a drink.The badger falls victim to the drought.
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Bill Vaughan, returned the favor last year after the Baptist church fell victim to arson.
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Don't allow yourself to fall victim to self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Even Jim Harrick fell victim to the mood.
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For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
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Many of you who do use your talents and prosper in the business may fall victim to its pressures.
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Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information.
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Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
fall/collapse etc in a heap
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Ace, Defries and Bernice fell in a heap .
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Graham never saw what hit him, and collapsed in a heap on the floor.
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Sure enough, the Mean Machine runs the same play again and Budanski collapses in a heap , not breathing.
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The foreigner stumbled on a few steps, his brains leaking out around his earphones, and collapsed in a heap .
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The gallant commander and his horse fell in a heap ... the horse dead, the rider unhurt.
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The lion fell in a heap , and she got a steel knee on top of it.
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Who knew when she might collapse in a heap of baubles and bangles?
fall/get into the wrong hands
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A crossed cheque therefore gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands.
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And images of Kurds on tape could fall into the wrong hands.
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But some gun dealers have stopped selling replicas, because they're worried about them falling into the wrong hands.
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Cards falling into the wrong hands cost the industry three hundred pounds every minute.
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I will never allow Kirsty to fall into the wrong hands.
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Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands.
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Voice over Mr Foulkes is seeking Government safeguards to prevent Rayo from falling into the wrong hands.
fall/land on your feet
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After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet .
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Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet .
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Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet .
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He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet .
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However he landed on his feet .
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Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.
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This is a company that tends to land on its feet .
fall/slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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One group still fell through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
in one fell swoop
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A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
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Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
▪
Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
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I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
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The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
it fell off the back of a lorry
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
the bottom drops/falls out of the market
the fallen
the roof falls/caves in
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The Warriors were leading, with only a few minutes of the game to go, when the roof fell in.
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It may not be long before the roof falls in.
the scales fell from sb's eyes
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It's high time the scales fell from our eyes, and our bathrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A light rain was falling.
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A shadow fell across his face, hiding his expression.
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A tree had fallen across the road and blocked it.
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Aston Villa fell 3 places in the league after their defeat by Barnsley.
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Bombs fell on the streets, destroying neighbouring homes, but leaving the school intact.
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Careful that box doesn't fall on you, Charlotte!
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Darkness fell on the town and the streetlights came on one by one.
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Don't worry - I'll catch you if you fall .
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Fred fell out of the tree and broke his arm.
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George held on tightly, afraid that he might fall .
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He reportedly fell in battle on June 17th.
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I can't find my passport - it must have fallen out of my pocket.
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I sat in bed, listening to the rain fall .
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Just as we were about to leave the house, rain began to fall .
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Katie fell and scraped her knee.
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Leaves were falling from the trees.
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Maria's hair fell over her shoulders.
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One of the climbers fell fifty feet.
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She opened the cupboard and everything fell out.
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She was going up the stairs when she fell.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A man tall and princely-looking was sitting by the hearth where the firelight fell full on him.
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He remembered Hause Point, he remembered the abyss he had so often fallen into.
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It is mature and spontaneous utterance falling like ripe leaves on a still day in the fall of the year.
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Its price fell 75 yen per 50, 000 in face value.
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Mabel Boll was exactly the kind of person upon whom Guest was determined the mantle of fame would not fall .
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Mukhamedov's defection two years ago, just as Communism was falling apart, will not be forgiven in a hurry.
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One of the glasses had fallen on to its side and a red stain had spread from it on to the tablecloth.
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She watched the keys fall , noting that they fell more slowly than they would have done on the Earth.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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You will forgive him using but he had a bad fall yesterday and has damaged his ankle.
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Moceanu took a bad fall midway through her routine on the beam.
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You took a bad fall - twenty feet, maybe - almost vertical.
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This impasse was made worse by continued falls in copper prices until the mid-1980s.
dramatic
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The most striking change between 1975 and 1988 has been the dramatic fall in youth employment from 60% to 20%.
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Most domestic items, particularly those made of wood show a dramatic fall after the mid-seventeenth century.
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Perhaps the most dramatic fall from grace was the case of Hu Yaobang.
free
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Thus we have verified that a transformation to a frame in free fall is always possible. 6.7.
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It is emphasized here that there is no rotation in a frame in free fall .
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The northeastern flank is the lowest, but still promises 500 feet of free fall .
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Wild speculation, low margin requirements and sheer panic triggered the free fall that set off the Great Depression.
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In free fall , only the force of gravity is acting so the body is not in compression.
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But as they go into production the stock exchanges go into free fall .
last
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When they met in Paris last fall , they knew they were made for each other.
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Since Richard left for California last fall , my bank account has grown by leaps and bounds.
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Compared to last fall , maybe a little.
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Preliminary evidence of lapses at Penn emerged after Gelsinger's death last fall .
sharp
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An inadequate person in a job can lead to a sharp fall in morale or sales.
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The first and most striking thing about these figures is the sharp fall which they show.
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And unemployment generally brings a sharp fall in income.
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There has been a sharp fall in the number of reported rapes involving strangers; these account for 12 % of attacks.
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As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets.
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This period has seen a sharp fall in the average rate of growth as compared to the earlier post-war experience.
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However, in April there were further sharp falls in the price of shares and the value of the yen.
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However, a sharp fall in the dollar would be awkward for the Fed.
steep
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Whether the steep falls of yesterday turn into something more serious remains to be seen.
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Separately, shares in forestry companies declined amid forecasts of a steep fall in cellulose prices, analysts said.
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The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously.
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The latter's performance is attributed to steep falls in smoking.
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Two rival companies, Toshiba and Hitachi, saw a steep fall in profits.
■ NOUN
campaign
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Clinton, 49, has not sought directly to exploit the age issue in the fall campaign .
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Better perhaps to leave these choices to the next president, and encourage further debate in the fall campaign .
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They come from states that Clinton carried in 1992, which will again be battlegrounds in the fall campaign .
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Cisneros said that he would continue his efforts during the fall campaign to enlist Hispanic support for Clinton.
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In fact, the two have staked out their own separate areas of the fall campaign .
guy
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To this end, one of the younger Communist shop stewards in the plot had agreed to be the fall guy .
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Beamish, thought Henry, could be the fall guy .
■ VERB
rise
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She, of course, becomes agitated and it's so lovely to watch full ripe bosoms rise and fall !
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Tax rates rise and fall , but the individual and the business are always treated differently.
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Budget costs would rise further, not fall .
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The wind blows through the long grasses and the grass seems to rise and fall in waves.
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Whether it rises or falls will naturally affect taxation.
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In other words, does Y rise or fall consistently as X rises?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fallen woman
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She was a fallen woman, and her hair knew it.
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Whatever she can urge in mitigation, she is a fallen woman for the rest of her life.
be riding for a fall
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He seems to be riding for a fall, almost recklessly risk-taking.
be/fall head over heels in love
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It wasn't just the usual liaison: the two of them fell head over heels in love.
be/fall hopelessly in love (with sb)
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And, unknown to her father, I fell hopelessly in love with her.
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I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.
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James Pawsey, the Tory member for Rugby, also appeared to be hopelessly in love.
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She was falling hopelessly in love with the man.
be/fall prey to sb/sth
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After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.
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All these animals, and others, had fallen prey to the apprentice hunters.
▪
It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends.
▪
Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.
▪
The magnificent castle was doomed to fall prey to the hand of desolation.
▪
The older trees grow spindly and, their immune systems weakened, fall prey to infestation of beetles and disease.
▪
These refugees fell prey to marauding gangs, even to troopers, or to one another.
▪
With aid supplies almost always out of reach, the boys became weak, and stragglers fell prey to wild animals.
fall apart
fall asleep
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Dad always falls asleep in front of the TV after Sunday lunch.
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Has Monica fallen asleep yet?
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Her three-year-old daughter fell asleep while we talked.
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I must have fallen asleep with the light on last night.
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One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
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Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President; no-one notices - they're all asleep too.
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Had they fallen asleep , the firemen say, not one of them would have survived.
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He falls asleep in the chair, wakes up startled, afraid for a moment to move.
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He fell asleep dreaming though that Rupert Quashie went to the beach and pushed Collymore down with his gun.
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He seemed to fall asleep , leaning heavily on to Cameron.
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I'd fallen asleep , and now I was awake.
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I fell asleep , and the next thing I knew, some one was waking me.
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Suddenly he gave a frightened start, for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away.
fall flat
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But the hopes fell flat , and private funding for vaccine work is drying up.
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He has been Navajo president for one year, and his efforts to decentralize tribal government so far have fallen flat .
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However, if your suggestion falls flat , he may not be ready to try another until the 21st century.
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Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
fall flat on your/sth's face
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She fell flat on her face getting out of the car.
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The last time I wore high-heeled shoes I fell flat on my face outside a restaurant.
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As we were going out to the car Babe slipped and fell flat on her face.
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At last, after several near misses, I fall flat on my face.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
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But once the ball tips, the game falls flat on its face faster than a top-ranked team after a first-round upset.
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It is also a nation waiting for her to fall flat on her face.
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Writers strive for a universal experience distilled from personal memories and tend to fall flat on their faces.
▪
Yet there are certain composers who fall flat on their face unless the adrenalin really start to flow.
fall into line/bring sb into line
fall into place
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Another piece of the jigsaw had just fallen into place .
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But just in time, it fell into place .
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I am like the painter of that mosaic, the small pieces are falling into place and I need your help.
▪
Mechanisms to ensure gender balance in appointed government bodies were also falling into place .
▪
That was our greatest moment together, I think, the moment when our whole future fell into place at last.
▪
The route had by now fallen into place .
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Yet it was not until researchers extended the same effort to the oceans that the bigger tectonic picture fell into place .
fall into ruin
▪
The 18th century mansion has fallen into ruin .
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In 1685 the castle was burnt by the Duke of Argyll and fell into ruin .
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Miles of poverty with modern adobe dwellings either being built or falling into ruin .
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Unemployment runs at more than 50 %, and most factories have fallen into ruin .
fall into step (with sb)
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Instead he fell into step , and they went on from there.
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Once again, Blue falls into step with Black, perhaps even more harmoniously than before.
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She walked to the door, trying her hardest to ignore the man who fell into step beside her.
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The Clinton administration, after some hesitation, fell into step behind Paris.
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The great horse Koulash galloped forward to join the Tsar's horses, and fell into step with them.
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The senator fell into step beside me while some of Bonefish's smaller children followed at a safe distance.
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They fell into step on the slush-covered path.
fall into/avoid the trap of doing sth
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But do not fall into the trap of doing something I saw recently.
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Don't fall into the trap of comparing your wages and conditions with other volunteers and development workers.
▪
Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.
▪
During the 90s Washington fell into the trap of allowing events to dictate the relationship, with increasingly destabilising results.
▪
Journalists can fall into the trap of being hypercritical.
▪
She was not going to fall into the trap of thinking she wanted Vitor as Vitor.
▪
So answer this question truthfully, lest your smart organization fall into the trap of continuing to outsmart itself.
▪
When we tie it to jobs, or to survival needs, we fall into the trap of mechanistic literacy.
fall off the wagon
fall on deaf ears
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As rioting continued, Mayor Warren appealed for calm, but his words fell on deaf ears.
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His pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears.
▪
The workers' demand for a wage increase has fallen on deaf ears.
▪
Their requests fell on deaf ears.
▪
Arguments that some of the skills practised by pupils are obsolete fall on deaf ears, or are heeded only very slowly.
▪
But my suggestions fell on deaf ears.
▪
Invitations by Paredes to the various governors to second his plan fell on deaf ears.
▪
Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financial ruin have fallen on deaf ears.
▪
They formulated a programme of demands, but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd.
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Those words fell on deaf ears.
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Until Friday, such complaints appeared to fall on deaf ears at the Treasury.
fall on stony ground
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Alan's charming smile fell on stony ground with her.
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Joseph's words fell on stony ground.
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Some initiatives have already fallen on stony ground, but, as we see in subsequent features, others keep coming.
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Their marriages had fallen on stony ground but it seemed to me there was still hope.
fall short of sth
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Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards.
▪
By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
▪
Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.
▪
On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
▪
Reality has a way of falling short of the ideal.
▪
The results fell short of eight analysts' forecasts of profit between 130 million and 127 million pounds.
▪
The trainers suggest that, as guards, they fell short of expectations.
fall to pieces
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If reforms are not carried out soon, the economy will simply fall to pieces .
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Stacy would fall to pieces if she knew Gary was cheating on her.
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The vase fell to pieces as soon as it hit the floor.
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After he left, I fell to pieces .
▪
As a result, now that the autumn rains were here, it was already showing signs of falling to pieces .
▪
He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces .
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I suppose it's just about falling to pieces .
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Supposing the union fell to pieces , these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break.
▪
The house was filthy, she realized, practically falling to pieces .
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The media seemed to be willing the marriage to fall to pieces .
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The Soviet Union is falling to pieces; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out.
fall victim to sb/sth
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And dying for a drink.The badger falls victim to the drought.
▪
Bill Vaughan, returned the favor last year after the Baptist church fell victim to arson.
▪
Don't allow yourself to fall victim to self-fulfilling prophecy.
▪
Even Jim Harrick fell victim to the mood.
▪
For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
▪
Many of you who do use your talents and prosper in the business may fall victim to its pressures.
▪
Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information.
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Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
fall/collapse etc in a heap
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Ace, Defries and Bernice fell in a heap .
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Graham never saw what hit him, and collapsed in a heap on the floor.
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Sure enough, the Mean Machine runs the same play again and Budanski collapses in a heap , not breathing.
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The foreigner stumbled on a few steps, his brains leaking out around his earphones, and collapsed in a heap .
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The gallant commander and his horse fell in a heap ... the horse dead, the rider unhurt.
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The lion fell in a heap , and she got a steel knee on top of it.
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Who knew when she might collapse in a heap of baubles and bangles?
fall/get into the wrong hands
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A crossed cheque therefore gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands.
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And images of Kurds on tape could fall into the wrong hands.
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But some gun dealers have stopped selling replicas, because they're worried about them falling into the wrong hands.
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Cards falling into the wrong hands cost the industry three hundred pounds every minute.
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I will never allow Kirsty to fall into the wrong hands.
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Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands.
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Voice over Mr Foulkes is seeking Government safeguards to prevent Rayo from falling into the wrong hands.
fall/land on your feet
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After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet .
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Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet .
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Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet .
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He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet .
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However he landed on his feet .
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Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.
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This is a company that tends to land on its feet .
fall/slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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One group still fell through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
in one fell swoop
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A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
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Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
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Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
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I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
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The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
it fell off the back of a lorry
stand or fall by/on sth
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But the argument must stand or fall on its merits.
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For the government, acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation.
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It seems that this is a case that will stand or fall on its own particular facts.
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Mr Karimov knows that he will stand or fall on his ability to stave off economic collapse.
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The school has an outstanding and deserved reputation, which will stand or fall by the testimony of its pupils.
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The storyline was always going to stand or fall by the performance of Tim Guinee as Lazar.
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The success of the new News at Ten will stand or fall on his relationship with the seven million plus viewers.
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Their case would stand or fall on her reliability.
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
the bottom drops/falls out of the market
the fallen
the roof falls/caves in
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The Warriors were leading, with only a few minutes of the game to go, when the roof fell in.
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It may not be long before the roof falls in.
the scales fell from sb's eyes
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It's high time the scales fell from our eyes, and our bathrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fall is my favorite season.
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I sat listening to the fall of the rain on the roof.
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It's a movie about the fall of France in 1940.
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It's one of the heaviest falls of snow on record.
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There was a dramatic fall in temperature overnight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Floyd investigated it soon after free fall had begun.
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Here, the fall is 48 percent since the objective was introduced.
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It seemed that the wind had dropped a little with the fall of night.
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Senate attempts to include the provision failed three times last fall when supporters were unable to cut off debate.
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The positioning of the stones will determine the type of fall .