Example sentences of "range from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ranged from ancient foundations , like St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's , to smaller local charities . |
| 2 | Custodial sentences ranged from two months to eight years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The total of forty-two sins ranged from serious crimes like murder to minor wrongdoings like listening to gossip . |
| 5 | Announcement of the verdict was accompanied by shouts of " Shame ! " by Ostashvili 's supporters ( who ranged from young skinheads to elderly war veterans ) , and banners were unfurled bearing anti-Zionist slogans . |
| 6 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 7 | The study found that average concentrations of particles under 2.5 micrometres ranged from 11 micrograms per cubic metre in the least polluted city to 30 in the most polluted . |
| 8 | The time taken to pass through a junction ranged from 11 seconds to 4 minutes 31 seconds , mean 41.4 seconds . |
| 9 | Groups ranged from small numbers of participants up to groups of over ninety . |
| 10 | The severity of damage ranged from small islets in which the surface remained completely denuded ( Fig 5C ) to areas in which the continuity of the surface epithelium was nearly complete ( Fig 5D ) . |
| 11 | Frequency of liquid stool incontinence ranged from three times day to once a week ( mean 0.92 episodes/day ) . |
| 12 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 13 | The problems presented ranged from sexual problems within marriage to alcoholism , suicide , attempted suicide , indecent assault upon a child , physical violence between husband and wife , family breakdown , learning and behavioural problems of children ( eg sibling rivalry , stealing , incendiarism ) , terminal illness within the family and bereavement . |
| 14 | Annual state pensions in 1988 ranged from 8,441 ecus ( £6,072 ) in Luxembourg to 2,175 ecus ( £1,565 ) in Portugal with Britain 's pension being 4,394 ecus ( £3,161 ) . |
| 15 | In style they ranged from formal talks to intensive workshops and such innovative features as the model classroom to which course participants were invited to return with interested colleagues by appointment to discuss its features with an advisory teacher . |
| 16 | Special thanks must go to our many suppliers and customers for their most generous gifts and donations which ranged from 3 Nights in Paris for two , to a bottle of whisky . |
| 17 | Amounts ranged from 9 hours at Cape Wrath to a better than average 58 hours at Dyce ( Aberdeen Airport ) — 20 hours more than London Airport recorded . |
| 18 | This list of companies ranged from local miners to multinational giants . |
| 19 | Various types of contract can be devised , ranging from population-based contracts , through block contracts , to cost-per-case contracts , all of which contain their own perverse incentives . |
| 20 | Charges carrying sentences ranging from 14 years to life imprisonment were filed against the former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd . ) |
| 21 | This wrist model I tried was designed for air diving and programmed with the Bühlmann ZHL12 algorithm with automatic ranging from 3,500 metres above sea level to 100 metres depth . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Bott and her colleagues had considerable difficulty finding families to take part in their project : they used forty-two ‘ contact agencies ’ ranging from general practitioners , clergymen , students ( taught by one of the researchers ) , and a branch of the Labour Party to simply ‘ friends and colleagues ’ . |
| 23 | They included a two-volume guide to Shakespeare 's plays , an investigation into the authorship of the Book of Genesis , a commentary on the poems of Kipling and Byron , a biographical encyclopaedia of all the scientists who have ever lived , musings on music and humour and a series of informative books with titles beginning How Did We Find Out About … ? on subjects ranging from black holes and life in the deep sea to number theory . |
| 24 | Coupled with problems that arose with the apparatus — UA1 for example was beset by difficulties ranging from dirty air-lines to burst pipes — it was not until last November and December that the experiments were able to observe a large sample of proton-antiproton collisions . |
| 25 | About 360 monuments are open to the public , ranging from substantial structures such as the examples quoted to simple field monuments and standing stones . |
| 26 | The Feoda contains the names of around 1,900 lords and knights , ranging from substantial aristocrats to landless warriors , grouped under the headings of the twenty-six castellanies of Champagne . |
| 27 | The Colonel Commandant of the regiment listed more than 50 errors — ranging from incorrect uniforms to the wrong ammunition . |
| 28 | Instead , priority will be given to developing and testing new products with civilian applications ranging from clean-fuel cars to fibre optics and supercomputer networks to improve communications and information access . |
| 29 | Indeed , free-electron laster ( FEL ) is a generic name for a family of devices ranging from millimetre-wave generators to potential X-ray lasers , whose only common feature is their apparent lack of a conventional laser gain medium . |
| 30 | There are various theories as to how long the inquiry will last , ranging from four months to nine months , or even longer . |