Example sentences of "[noun] varied from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid .
2 These patterns varied from language to language , but only a limited number of such patterns seemed to occur , so that the same pattern of kinship terminology was found among totally unrelated peoples speaking totally unrelated languages .
3 Patterns varied from area to area , differed between industrial and rural areas , and between city and city , and a host of social factors have to be taken into account .
4 Of course , the response varied from council to council .
5 In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble .
6 The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community .
7 And where they were employed , their duties varied from place to place — some fulfilled judicial as well as financial functions , others might even have a military role .
8 The lord 's power to remove the inhabitants of a village varied from place to place .
9 Wages and conditions of work varied from firm to firm .
10 The arguments rehearsed by Sextus Empiricus purported to show that , because perception of secondary qualities such as tastes and colours varied from person to person , we can not know how things really are in respect of these .
11 The proportion of Christians and Jews in the urban population varied from city to city .
12 The number of participants varied from evening to evening : attendance was higher at the beginning of the week than at the end .
13 It may be that the policy of differing rates of support for different categories of residential and nursing homes clients encourages some specialisation. b Literature A survey of registered nursing homes in Edinburgh showed that about 70% of residents suffered mild , moderate or severe dementia , but figures varied from home to home , indicating differing practices , not necessarily related to the declared policy of the homes ( Primrose and Capewell , 1987 ) .
14 The copper content varied from place to place but rich solid chalcopyrite was found in places , particularly where veins came together or at junctions with cross-faults to form " bunches " .
15 The actual pattern varied from town to town and decade to decade but there is abundant evidence of a modest and continued prosperity in the smaller centres such as Petworth , Midhurst and Steyning where a large number of the houses have survived .
16 The incidence of customary tenure varied from region to region and from manor to manor .
17 Dealers regard Matisse as an unreliable vineyard whose quality and yield varied from year to year .
18 Again , motivation varied from individual to individual .
19 The direction of bias varied from paper to paper .
20 Differences in earnings depended on a wide variety of factors : wages varied from region to region , employers paid different amounts for the same work , and their practices regarding fines differed .
21 The size of a çift varied from place to place , according to the fertility of the soil , and ranged between four and thirty-five acres .
22 The sections could take from two weeks to half a term to complete , so the actual number of tests varied from scheme to scheme .
23 The clinical significance of colonisation by the epidemic strain varied from patient to patient .
24 The precise organization of the rural police varied from province to province .
25 The verderers ' familiarity with the district from earlier years could only serve them in a general way , for the woodland paths varied from season to season .
26 The significance of either of these factors varied from site to site ; at times cults appear largely to have been promoted by the Church hierarchy , or by a small group with a precise , often family , interest in the new saint — this seems to be the norm for the development of the cults of the aristocratic saints of the seventh century .
27 In 1989 the board and lodging allowance varied from £140 to £230 a week depending upon the category of resident .
28 Agricultural productivity varied from country to country with its structure .
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