Example sentences of "varies [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 The system of social security which varies widely from country to country is another important influence when international comparisons are made .
2 But confusion can arise due to the difference in sizes between packages or glasses , and the definition of a unit varies widely from country to country .
3 For Strathclyde , the damage through school fires varies widely from year to year , but rose to £6 million in 1991 .
4 In addition , the rate of the tax varies widely from state to state — the standard rate in Ireland is 23 per cent whilst in Spain it is only 12 per cent .
5 The place of computers in improving office efficiency varies widely from bureau to bureau .
6 While the rationale for the arm 's length approach , as well as the length of the arm , varies widely from organization to organization , the desire to distance important areas of public administration from direct political control has been a major factor in the twentieth-century growth of quasi-government .
7 There is no chart telling us just how many hours we should be sleeping ; indeed it varies greatly from person to person .
8 Accordingly , assessment of results must rely largely on subjective reports ; and the subjective experience of backpain varies greatly from person to person , and is much influenced by mental states ( and hence placebo effects ) .
9 The strength of teacher education , both initial and in-service , varies greatly from polytechnic to polytechnic , depending on such features as its previous commitment to and its present attitude towards the subject , the nature of the inheritance of qualified staff from the mergers with colleges of education , and the character of the courses and administration which have emerged .
10 The length of notice to which business executives are due varies greatly from company to company .
11 The booksellers ' and auctioneers ' vocabulary concerning condition is a very extensive one and varies greatly from cataloguer to cataloguer .
12 There are great difficulties in assessing health effects , however , since exposure varies greatly from house to house within small neighbourhoods .
13 There will then be taboos against appearing " naked " in inappropriate situations , though just what counts as either naked or inappropriate varies greatly from place to place for no very obvious or logical reason .
14 A child 's access to schooling varies greatly from place to place .
15 The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point .
16 Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time .
17 The backspace time varies slightly from machine to machine , but you can measure it exactly by test-copying a shot and comparing its length with that of the original — the difference between the two is the backspace .
18 Over the period of a man 's life , small changes are in fact detectable — the magnetic poles wander very slowly around the geographic poles , so the direction of ‘ magnetic ’ north varies slightly from year to year .
19 While the way in which sexual relations are conducted obviously varies considerably from individual to individual and from zone to zone , generally speaking , there is an attempt to maintain a fairly strict control in the military camps , although this does not apply for the civilian population , nor should it be regarded as an indication of future attitudes .
20 Its relationship with justice varies considerably from State to State , depending on the degree of coercion necessary .
21 Sometimes I wonder if I sleep too much , but my friend Cully Chatterton tells me that the need for sleep varies considerably from person to person and one must follow one 's inclination . ’
22 The September-October northern limit of pack ice varies considerably from year to year .
23 As in lower latitudes , clutch size and nesting success among arctic land birds depend on the amount of food available each season , and this varies considerably from area to area and season to season .
24 Firstly , the efficacy of BCG varies considerably from region to region ; secondly , it is effective in preventing serious forms of primary tuberculosis but seems not to prevent the infected person from developing postprimary , often infectious , disease .
25 However , the economic benefit gained from such treatment varies considerably from farm to farm and also apparently from country to country and there are as yet insufficient grounds for advocating routine treatment of herds at calving .
26 The distribution of such InsP 3 - or ryanodine-sensitive calcium stores varies considerably from cell to cell .
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