Example sentences of "[noun pl] from year to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Natural resources and environment : water , soil , possibly vegetation , climate ( reflected in the growing season with hot-cold , wet-dry combinations from year to year ) .
2 Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year .
3 Another literally hidden factor is that basement in Trinity where Miss Edmonstone so kindly allows us to store books from year to year .
4 The verderers were enabled , in return for an annual payment of £1 , to secure for the commoners the right to turn out their animals during these periods from year to year .
5 Difficulties of finding comparable data prevent detailed comparison of press contents from year to year .
6 The composition of the garden flora changes from year to year , but it retains its characteristic of high , though contrived , plant diversity , which coupled with structural diversity , is often cited as a cause of complexity .
7 This can be used to highlight changes from year to year or compare actual and required staffing levels .
8 Changes from year to year in the number of people in each age group create difficulties for planning , especially as birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict ; estimating what the school population will be in more than five years ' time becomes increasingly speculative and uncertain .
9 The water changes from year to year and it is quite a skill knowing where the tides flow are running .
10 Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent .
11 But there were significant variations from year to year and between different regions .
12 He says what he believes to be true and even if one disagrees with him , his uncompromising stances are vastly preferable to some of the gobbledy-gook that comes from some sections of the countryside establishment or those who change their views from year to year .
13 They prefer them mainly because they face regulations that reward stable growth in returns from year to year rather than the more volatile — but , in the long-run , almost certainly higher — returns they would earn by holding more equities .
14 Also , although there were marked fluctuations in the number of admissions from year to year , it is clear that from about 1490 the numbers of those admitted at York were consistently lower than they had been from the mid 1380s to the 1440s .
15 Age specific mortality was used throughout the study taking into account increasing age , but in Asians unlike Europeans this could not be adjusted for changing mortality rates from year to year as these data were unavailable .
16 Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level .
17 With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate .
18 The resulting shallow pits and pools , often extending over many hectares , accumulate salts and nutrients from year to year .
19 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 .
20 Many herbs grow easily from seed , fortunately still reasonably inexpensive , and you can save seed and take your own cuttings from year to year .
21 Other studies show that toad populations do suffer large fluctuations from year to year , but the length of the Norwegian study , covering 25 years and four or five generations of toads , suggests a worrying trend .
22 Cases of CJD rose from 32 in 1990/91 to 48 in 1992/93 but the rise " is not statistically significant " and reflects " inevitable fluctuations from year to year " , say researchers at the national CJD surveillance unit in Edinburgh .
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