Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [num] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of success varied from one head to another . |
| 2 | The speed at which an awareness of national fashions in architecture grew varied from one area to another . |
| 3 | As Tables 10–13 , below , show , most of the factors mentioned were common to all exhibitions , although the degree to which a particular factor contributed to an exhibition 's success varied from one exhibition to another . |
| 4 | Their controlled study showed that the social withdrawal and poverty of speech of chronic patients varied from one hospital to another according to the severity of ward restrictiveness , absence of personal belongings , and the length of time that patients were left to do nothing . |
| 5 | Duration of symptoms varied from two months to 15 years . |
| 6 | Thus the time spent on the physical abuse referrals varied from 30 minutes to 20 hours . |
| 7 | The sessions varied from ninety minutes to whole day programmes . |
| 8 | book , then it 's gon na get forgo , forgotten from one day to the next . |
| 9 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 10 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 11 | Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four . |
| 12 | Turnover fell 20 p.c. to £16.9m and operating margins were squeezed from 11½ p.c. to 6½ p.c. as price competition intensified in the depressed construction sector . |
| 13 | The exhortations of Scripture which relate to personal qualities and Christian virtues require little adaptation when transposed from one culture to another . |
| 14 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 15 | Accordingly , the Council has decided that the timescale should be shortened from six months to three . |
| 16 | Beach charges included from 1 May to 30 Sept ( see p.225 ) . |
| 17 | To have one standing in the corner of every room in the house is a tremendous help to an old person who can not bend ; although , of course , one will suffice , as it can be carried from one room to another when it is needed . |
| 18 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 19 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 20 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 21 | Much of the $50 million of software exports in 1980 consisted of what is called conversion work : the recoding of programs so that they can be transferred from one computer to another . |
| 22 | This is commonly done where information needs to be transferred from one computer to another as in banking or for the operation of a fax machine . |
| 23 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 24 | There is a statutory discontinuance of a trade when it is transferred from one company to another ( see s337(1) TA 1988 ) . |
| 25 | It is helpful to understand how money is transferred from one country to another and the bank accounting procedures which accompany such transfers if the concept of Eurocurrency is to be fully understood . |
| 26 | The treaty which they drew up dealt specifically with those leudes who had transferred from one king to the other . |
| 27 | Cases may be transferred from one court to another to avoid delay ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ No risk ’ activity is safe as no infectious body fluids ( for example blood , semen , vaginal secretions ) can be transferred from one person to another . |
| 29 | As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure . |
| 30 | The big advantage , however , is that information is easily transferred from one machine to another . |