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be down by
verb
To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
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"He'll be down by the river," she said softly.
They are expected to be down by half in dairy".
Nickell regained 3 imps to be down by 13 with one board to play.
Uttar Pradesh (UP), home to 185m, expects its main rice harvest to be down by 60%.
Profits are forecast to be down by 37%, according to Bloomberg.
Nutmeg exports, the agricultural mainstay, will be down by 90% in 2005.
Wall Street bankers' bonuses are likely to be down by as much as 70% this year.
"We can't be down by 9 against a really good basketball team".
The company said capital spending would be down by more than half in 2008.
A. First, earnings in 2001 will be down by a record amount.
Overall we still expect headline house prices to be down by 2% over 2011".
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