Example sentences of "from one [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable .
2 Nonetheless , designs vary significantly from one year to the next , even if the subtle , sludgy fabrics remain essentially the same .
3 Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next .
4 ‘ Well , Miss Danziger , you must allow it is rather unusual for guests to keep engagements from one year to the next , as you do .
5 Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next .
6 And travelling maintenance crews may not turn up from one year to the next because of the immense areas they have to cover .
7 Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next .
8 It is important to book as early as possible , since kennels fill up quickly at peak times , with customers booking from one year to the next .
9 On the other hand , however much it might be in demand , Indian patronage was never plentiful , for it fluctuated from one year to the next in accordance with Indian needs rather than the wishes of the Scottish politician .
10 As Italy 's financial year closes at the end of the calendar year and money can not be held over from one year to the next , there is not enough time to distribute and use such funds as have been allocated .
11 The level of rates could also rise substantially from one year to the next and was unpredictable as a basis for business decisions .
12 Could I carry my miles over from one year to the next ?
13 Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding .
14 We used to regard any inflation as an evil ; there were years in living memory when prices hardly moved from one year to the next .
15 The complexity of the technology most notably in chips — increases literally from one year to the next .
16 Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next .
17 Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure .
18 Chronology of building forms can be established only approximately , and archaeology can not tell us of variations in the prosperity of a community from one year to the next .
19 Another well-known example from the USA arises from an apparently striking fall in fatalities due to road accidents from one year to the next following a police drive against speeding motorists in Connecticut .
20 Since the national income of a country is a measurement of the output of the final goods and services produced by that country in a year , can we conclude that if national income rises from one year to the next , economic welfare must also rise ?
21 The results of these early surveys showed that the use made of foreign-language publications was low , and that the demand for them showed little , if any , variation from one year to the next .
22 Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand .
23 The bottom gate of one lock is the top gate of the lock below it , and water passes directly from one chamber to the next .
24 As the choristers sang a low chant in the background , the priest moved from one vessel to the next , praying for the fishermen to be kept safe from harm , and asking that the catch over the next year may be bountiful .
25 Since such information will differ from one drive to the next it is difficult to assess the role which this variable information plays in memory .
26 Tax rates currently vary widely from one country to the next ( see chart ) .
27 It is designed to make Europe a place where movement from one country to the next is as easy as possible .
28 Commentators have argued that the movement from one level to the next would be too great to show teachers and children that learning is taking place ( McNicholas 1989 , Reason 1989 ) .
29 The reason was first realized by such early ecologists as the Englishman , Charles Elton and the American Raymond Lindemann ; it is the energetic inefficiency of transferring food from one level to the next .
30 His body flopped brokenly from one strut to the next , cartwheeling ungainly to crump on the earth .
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