Example sentences of "vary [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Regrettably , over the years local inspections have varied widely in quality , for many reasons .
2 The collection was assembled by Miss Harriet Moore after the death of the artist , whom she had probably met through his friend William Lock , and is varied both in date and subject matter .
3 However , the actual time taken to cover a kilometre will almost certainly have varied substantially between road types , thus it is possible that their subjects did not actually have more to report in the shopping areas .
4 Table 5.2 Volume of international bond issues by type ( $ billion ) The pattern of issuance in the bond markets has varied considerably over time , although there has generally been a predominance of banks , industrial companies and supranational organisations ( such as the World Bank ) .
5 Although the WHO has called for a worldwide effort to stop AIDS , responses to the epidemic have varied considerably from country to country .
6 As an example consider a hybrid stepping motor in which the peak static torque produced by each phase is proportional to the phase current and the phase torques vary sinusoidally with rotor position : For conventional operation the windings are excited by positive and negative rated current , giving a step length of r/2p for each excitation change .
7 Although it is not strictly necessary , most work is done with stimuli that vary sinusoidally in space or time .
8 The time component is negligible in the classical limit of fields which vary slowly with time .
9 The end products which arrive in your bag of feed vary tremendously in nutrient values .
10 There is a very wide variety of finishes available , such as gilded or silvered , and with or without a highlighting gold line , as well as the enormous range of woods themselves , which vary tremendously in colour and atmosphere , and can be inlaid with veneers or kept quite plain .
11 A more significant objection has been the charge that leys involve marker sites that vary tremendously in age .
12 Documentary sources vary widely over time and in quality .
13 It complains that prices vary widely from country to country .
14 Plasma concentrations after oral dosage vary widely from individual to individual , and after a single 16 mg dose , recovery in the stool varies from 14 to 49% in volunteers ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) .
15 The first is that an advertisement is , at least in some sense , an artistic creation : people 's judgements of art are virtually always subjective , and vary widely from person to person .
16 The levels of disturbance allowance given vary widely from organisation to organisation .
17 The colonies vary widely in shape : some are shrub-like , with numerous slender branches , others have only a few , or even a single branch .
18 The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) .
19 Executive fashions vary little from year to year but the most popular fashion statement of the Eighties — huge shoulder pads — are definitely out .
20 The current ( 1980s ) rankings of the major brewers vary somewhat from product to product :
21 Numbers reaching N W Europe vary greatly from year to year .
22 Individual risks vary greatly from job to job and from industry to industry .
23 At present rubies vary greatly in esteem according to their colour and source .
24 SCOREBOXES vary greatly in size and complexity .
25 The mitochondria of insect muscle vary greatly in size , shape and distribution , being most extensively developed in the flight-muscles , as one would expect from the extremely high metabolic rate of these actively contracting structures .
26 Tombs vary greatly in size and elaboration , from a nobleman 's tomb with several chambers , richly decorated and furnished by household objects used in life , to simple , single-cell designs for an ordinary family .
27 The houses at Pompeii vary greatly in size and elaboration , from two or three rooms to large buildings with many rooms arranged round courtyards .
28 These vary greatly in approach — from Adam Bruce Thomson 's light touch and heightened sense of intricate design ( The River Tweed at Kelso ) and ( Cattle by the River Tweed ) to William Johnstone 's simplified near abstraction in sparsely annotated washes .
29 Plates vary greatly in area ( Fig.2.14 ) .
30 They vary greatly in form in the higher orders , however , and some segments are frequently differentiated from their fellows .
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