Example sentences of "[adj] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year .
2 The only book in the whole of this enlightened household was something called Easy Cooking belonging to her mother , and when she had read this from cover to cover and had learnt all the recipes by heart , she decided she wanted something more interesting .
3 Sir Ian painstakingly worked over the evidence for this from decade to weary decade — and drew a blank .
4 " Very well , " said the king 's son , when he had heard all this from root to branch , " I will go in search of that Reed Girl . "
5 What renders science distinctive , then , is not so much the instruments that are played , for crude variants of these can be found wherever we look ; nor even the particular tune , for everyone plays brief snatches of this from time to time ; it is rather the sustained and collaborative elaboration of this particular melody in preference to all the others one might play .
6 I get tired of all this from time to time and attempt to get off the Circle Line and branch out into new conversational territory .
7 I do n't know about these , this person you 're thinking of but er a very common reaction , I certainly have this from time to time , it really does irritate my wife cos I usually wake her up , is you know , you 're just going off to sleep and you suddenly kind of feel you 're falling , does , does that happen ?
8 I keep moving this from side to side cos we keep swopping .
9 A clear-cut modulation like this from F to B flat , and a little later through C to G before returning to the tonic was still unusual in the mid-seventeenth century .
10 The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns .
11 It is different from country to country , and I sometimes feel I mean I 'm not sure whether I 'm being unfair to our industry here , but it does seem to me that perhaps we have n't quite got our act together yet , we 're going in the right direction , but we have n't quite got there .
12 in addition the research will examine attitude to bilingualism as a concept importantly different from attitude to Welsh .
13 News from missionaries , investigative visits and subsequent writing on the West Indies by Charles Stuart , Joseph Sturge and others provided the kind of detail which permitted attacks on the operation of the system as too little different from slavery to be supported as substantial progress .
14 transition to turbulence is often inherently different from transition to chaos in simple systems ( i.e. systems with few degrees of freedom are not a good guide to those with very many )
15 In particular he must be aware that Nonconformity flourished in certain types of local communities and that the social composition of the various denominations was often markedly different from sect to sect .
16 Erm and it 's different from site to site , but I can , the things that you can normally control are the labour and how they 're used and the plant and how it 's used .
17 We should not generalise , it will be different from area to area and practice to practice .
18 Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time .
19 The grass-like leaves grow in clumps , and can be picked outdoors fresh from February to November , longer if given protection .
20 My impression was that Ted by then was only hearing the advice he wished to hear , including some from sources to which previously he had paid scant attention .
21 Vera would supply us with some from time to time and I know Uncle was partial to it .
22 In 1839 several townlands from Seagoe were joined with some from Tullylish to form the parish of Knocknamuckley .
23 There is nothing to be ashamed of in having your tank go wrong from time to time — it happens to me too you know !
24 North called it ‘ a bit of a horror story ’ and , for once , he understated : it went wrong from start to finish , and ended with the wrong missiles , still with their Israeli markings , piled on the ground in Tehran .
25 Perhaps so , but Mr Kohl was careful not to mention that a Christian Democrat alliance is inseparable from commitment to federalism .
26 Pre-select from right to left and press the right part button and the left tuck button .
27 And can you take er weekly from Monday to Monday or ?
28 The only one of them who appeared in public from time to time was the Conte 's daughter , who was already past what was considered a marriageable age .
29 — producing , for example , an increase in income support for a couple with two children aged 10 and 12 from £104.55 to £111.85 , and for a pensioner couple aged under 75 from £83.15 to £88.95 .
30 The Zambian government has banned the sale of unpasteurized milk direct from farmers to consumers because it may contain high concentrations of the pesticide dieldrin .
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