Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The median duration of glue ear assessed otoscopically reduced from 6.1 years without surgery to 3.5 years with tubes , 3.4 years after adenoidectomy , and 2.3 years with the combination of adenoidectomy and tubes . |
| 2 | This type of analytical framework posits a range of views from strong versions of racism to weak versions of ethnocentrism . |
| 3 | EXETER-BASED InStyle Holidays ( 0392 70131 ) has displayed enterprise in flying from little-used airports in Britain to little-used airports in the Alps , using small propeller aircraft . |
| 4 | Having it inside the ribber can cause problems , from dropped stitches on lace to knitted-in floats on Fair Isle . |
| 5 | Meadowbank Sports Centre is the venue for an ‘ Activity Day for 50+ ’ offering a choice of organised activities ranging from indoor bowls to fencing to yoga . |
| 6 | The prepatent period ranges from 5-6 weeks in chicks to eight weeks or more in adult birds . |
| 7 | There are manufacturers , distributors and retailers geared up to supply them all , from multinational companies like Nestle to small healthfood firms manufacturing grain , nut and honey crunch bars . |
| 8 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |
| 9 | Despite a lengthy investigation into the affairs of 10 accountants connected with the Lloyd 's reinsurance scandal in 1982 , the Joint Disciplinary Scheme has decided not to apportion blame to any of them , prompting calls from some quarters for change to the regulatory regime . |
| 10 | YOU could n't conceivably have two carriage processions coming from different parts of London to Westminster Abbey for the coronation and then going separate ways . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They coaxed everything from pygmy mice to snakes to cheetahs into running on a treadmill while wearing an oxygen mask . |
| 13 | The transfer of certain functions of administrative control from central departments of government to the county councils — decentralisation ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Within large corporations control had ebbed away from entrepreneurial owners of capital to business managers who administered the companies on behalf of largely inactive shareholders . |
| 16 | It includes an illustrated section on marks and extracts from contemporary accounts of visits to factories ( £35 ) . |
| 17 | The total of forty-two sins ranged from serious crimes like murder to minor wrongdoings like listening to gossip . |
| 18 | The manager , Julie Nisbet is a qualified zoologist who takes a pride in the presentation of a wide range of specimens from tiny ammonites at 20p to the most expensive item on show , a slab of rock found in the Wyoming Green River area which contains the fossilised remains of 3 different types of fishes — a beautiful display which costs £3400 . |
| 19 | It is delightfully written and beautifully illustrated , guiding the student from simple chemicals to macromolecules to cellular organisation and finally to multicellular organisms . |
| 20 | The result will mean increasing output to Toyota from 250,000 litres per year to around a million . |
| 21 | It takes genius to go from playful thoughts about beetles to a deep understanding of the Universe . |
| 22 | Birmingham students come from all over the world — in a typical year , more than 1000 students from 100 countries in addition to the 9000 from the UK . |
| 23 | It is possible for applicants to register as non-graduating students and attend the animal welfare section , which lasts from 8–10 weeks from April to June . |
| 24 | ( 9 ) If the consideration is to include a cash underwritten alternative , it may be necessary for the consideration shares agreed to be purchased from accepting shareholders by underwriters to be the subject of an offer to the bidder 's shareholders on a pre-emptive basis . |
| 25 | A tenant has no right to deduct tax that should have been deducted from earlier payments of rent to a non-resident landlord from later payments of rent to the same landlord . |
| 26 | A 50 per cent sample of teachers was drawn from these schools by reference to their staff lists , selecting alternate names , the total in the sample , including the pilot schools , being 408 . |
| 27 | The same method in principle was used to convert Snow White and her Prince from photographic images of actors to animated characters . |
| 28 | This brought the death toll from cross-border clashes since September to at least 18 [ for August clashes see p. 37664 ] . |
| 29 | On the part-time farms 18% of the wives had off-farm jobs , varying from 18 hours per week to full-time employment . |
| 30 | The cash will also help to reduce gearing from current levels of 70% to about ‘ 40%-ish ’ . |