Example sentences of "ranged from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average brood size noted ranged from 3.6 to 7.7 , with a mean of 5.2 , but the number finally reared was often much less ; the few figures available indicate a predation rate of up to 40 per cent. , sometimes more . |
| 2 | A more detailed analysis of the degree subject/type of work relationship for polytechnic and college graduates has been provided by Brennan and McGeevor ( 1988 ) , who showed that the percentage of ‘ specialist ’ graduates working in the field of their specialism three years later ranged from 97 per cent in pharmacy to only 24 per cent in 3D design , although it should be noted that employment figures for art and design graduates are particularly problematic ( Barnett 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Between 1929 and 1936 unemployment averaged 16.9 per cent across Great Britain , but it ranged from 7.8 per cent in the South-east to 30.1 per cent for Wales , 22.7 per cent for the North-east and just under 22 per cent for Scotland and the North-west . |
| 4 | The thickness of the surveillance-detected melanomas ranged from 0.4 mm to 1.05 mm , whereas the two index melanomas diagnosed before referral to the surveillance clinic were 2.6 mm and 2.8 mm thick at detection . |
| 5 | At the level of individual LEAs , differences in spending ranged from 1078 ( Kent ) to 1869 ( ILEA ) per primary school child in 1987–8 , and from 1590 ( Hereford and Worcester ) to 2866 ( ILEA ) per secondary school pupil ( CIPFA , 1989 , pp. 17 and 49 ) . |
| 6 | The choices ranged from central SF authors and works such as Ray Bradbury , Arthur C. Clarke and The time machine , to less central or non-SF writers and books such as Enid Blyton , Salman Rushdie and Dracula . |
| 7 | The concentration of cholesteryl oleate in the incubation medium ranged from 10 to 20 mM . |
| 8 | They ranged from ancient foundations , like St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's , to smaller local charities . |
| 9 | Regular smoking ranged from 1 per cent of 10 year olds to 30 per cent of 15 year olds . |
| 10 | The number of readmissions ranged from 1 to 16 . |
| 11 | The follow up period ranged from 1 month to 9 years with a mean of 21 months . |
| 12 | Platelet activating factor was detected in four of 13 subjects ( 30% ) in all 15 minute gastric juice samples ; hourly amounts ranged from 1 to 8 pg/h ( mean 1.2 ( 0.06 ) ) . |
| 13 | Of 70 male young persons and children who worked at the mine , and whose ages ranged from 7 to 17 , only 8 or 11.5 per cent were able to write — only one of the eight being below 13 years old . |
| 14 | The late postoperative mortality , and we have defined this as death occurring between thirty and ninety days , was a mean of three point seven percent for the region as a whole and the inter-site variations for this ranged from one point seven percent to six point eight percent . |
| 15 | 1.3. b ( v ) Institutions that listed their numbers of school- based inset days ranged from one College and two Polytechnics doing 40+ to 11 institutions doing no school-based work , and 12 who made no response to this question . |
| 16 | Custodial sentences ranged from two months to eight years . |
| 17 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 18 | The median time to full recovery as judged by the patient was 12 days — that is , two days after the Foley drainage catheter was removed and ranged from two to 28 days . |
| 19 | Follow up in non-relapsing patients ranged from two to 41.7 months ( median 9.1 months ) in the PEN group , and from 3.2 to 30.1 months ( median 7.8 months ) in the steroid group . |
| 20 | The authors also show ( Table 5.1 ) that the percentage of graduates in all the 31 subjects in their study employed after three years in the three largest type of work categories for that subject ranged from 100 per cent in three subjects ( pharmacy , graphic design , electrical engineering ) to under 60 per cent in three others ( science , English literature and interfaculty studies ) . |
| 21 | A number of observations follow from this : the number of single strikers who receive supplementary benefit is very small — during the five-year period 1970–5 it ranged from 100 to 400 , or an average 240 per annum . |
| 22 | Comments ranged from tasteless , bland and bitter to very easy to drink . |
| 23 | The within patient coefficient of variation for blood flow measurements ranged from 12.5 to 63.0% , and averaged 31.9% . |
| 24 | Hours worked by housewives in this sample ranged from forty-eight ( the one housewife who had a full-time job ) to 105 . |
| 25 | Sections were examined and scored ‘ blind ’ by two experienced observers , using a scoring system that ranged from negative , through intermediate , to strongly positive ( +++ ) . |
| 26 | Estimates of the numbers of people who turned out to greet her ranged from 1,500 to 30,000 , but even this higher figure was regarded as a small crowd by Manila standards . |
| 27 | The mean coefficient of variation for each group of albumin concentrations ranged from 58 to 82% and showed no relation with the concentration ( table ) . |
| 28 | They ranged from poor orphans in modest white dresses ( worn by both sexes ) to sailor-suited scions of white-collar families and rich little Lord Fauntleroys . |
| 29 | These attempts , none too successful , ranged from various business ventures to a stint in the Netherlands ( 1745–7 ) as observer for the British government . |
| 30 | Sums laid out by administrators ranged from hundreds of pounds spent repaying deceased 's debts to a few pence spent mending children 's shoes . |