Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 2 | In addition to the substantial delivery of Government programmes , the Agency has also been able to deploy earned surpluses on a range of innovative projects from training to business development financing . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
| 4 | In the Heinkel , despite the enormous noise , Hess and Edward exchanged a few shouted words from time to time , their faces pressed close together . |
| 5 | The middlemen may sometimes be excluded from a channel , as in most industrial marketing , where direct channels from manufacturer to customer are employed . |
| 6 | Even asset-strippers had to relax and pursue a few hobbies from time to time … |
| 7 | The Bishop and his party of senior clergy , suffragan , archdeacon , dean precentor and residentiary canons moved on oiled heels from group to group , pair to pair , solitary to isolate . |
| 8 | The second , lit by a single row of fluorescent lights , was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end . |
| 9 | He surfaces in different places from time to time : there he is at St Mary 's church in Finchley , North London , witnessing the marriage of sister Bessie and Alf Davidge in 1907 , then appearing as if from nowhere to perform the same function for Gertie and Frederick Foxwell in Norwich in 1911 . |
| 10 | ‘ Medieval manuscripts from Monastery to workshop ’ by Elspeth Yeo ; |
| 11 | Yesterday morning the police , conspicuous but inactive in past weeks , blocked East German latecomers from access to the embassy garden . |
| 12 | By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so . |
| 13 | Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed . |
| 14 | This momentous shift took 300 years from church to factory , say , 1360 to 1660 . |
| 15 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 16 | Those few yards from side to centre stage are strewn with obstacles and few are able to complete the journey unscathed . |
| 17 | The best known of these studies , internationally , is the now well established Values and Life Styles ( VALS ) approach pioneered by the Stamford Research Institute in California , and licensed to various European market research agencies ( in the UK , Applied Futures Ltd ) ; a number of others have been promoted by different interests from time to time , notably the Europe-wide RISC studies . |
| 18 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 19 | The silicon microchip and integrated circuit followed similar if shorter processes from invention to commercial realization . |
| 20 | The overall plan , extending about 140 metres from north to south and the same from east to west , is roughly square ; the outer walls have extensions and indents that imply design from the centre outwards . |
| 21 | Many of the canals were built to serve specific industries and for short distance haulage taking coal or other raw materials from mine to factory . |
| 22 | She measured a shade under twenty-one metres from nose to tail , and a shade over half that across , from wingtip to stubby wingtip . |
| 23 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 24 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 25 | The interests of the pupils themselves may also lead up different avenues from year to year , and a wide range of resources will help the teacher to respond effectively . |
| 26 | Squatting , tossing back his black curly locks from time to time , he was chatting to his elderly accompanist : ‘ I think we should have the Bach . ’ |
| 27 | If another cat is given a much more interesting and varied diet , with a different kind of canned food each day and many other titbits , then , paradoxically , it may refuse one of its old , favourite foods from time to time . |
| 28 | Hardly anyone ever travels the full 3,727 miles from sea to frigid sea — Halifax , Nova Scotia to Vancouver , British Columbia — except the odd , crazed British journalist . |
| 29 | There are of course substantial variations in dietary habits from country to country , and from family to family . |
| 30 | This walk follows these hills for 30 miles from north to south . |