Example sentences of "variation [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This generalisation , however , masks the fact that there are considerable variations from country to country in each of these regions .
2 It is not the same as equal numbers of additions to each area , since there will naturally be variations from cylinder to cylinder in the number of additions just because those additions are random .
3 Indeed , about 50 per cent of the variation from person to person in mental activities can be attributed to variations in the strength of a single attribute , which , because of the great diversity of its expression , is called g , for general intelligence .
4 It appears , in fact , that the speed and reliability of a bee 's flower memory at least roughly corresponds to the degree of variability it is likely to encounter among flowers of the same species in nature ( including variation from day to day of an individual blossom ) .
5 ‘ It can therefore be seen that variation from place to place in climax tropical lowland rain forest , which has for so long intrigued and challenged ecologists , is not open to any single or simple explanation .
6 A good deal of depressive illness is known to follow adverse life events and it is known that human infants show considerable variation in response to separation from their mothers .
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