Example sentences of "have varied from " in BNC.

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1 In spite of high interest rates , price inflation at the factory gate has varied from 4.8-5.2 per cent during the past seven months with little indication that it is set to slip below the range .
2 Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods .
3 The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment .
4 The designation of zones has certainly encouraged development , but this has varied from region to region .
5 In only 5 of 11 years has P. albimonus been the commonest species , four others having occupied that position ; in 1977 Episyrphus balteatus formed nearly half the total catch ; in 1976 , a third of the species caught were represented by one individual ; and the number of individuals per species has varied from 20 in 1981 to over 120 in 1978 .
6 The operation of the communities of interest has varied from seeking to preserve neighbourhood cohesion or status quo ( Fineview and Charles Street Kirkbride ) to pursuing the interests of an exclusive and unrepresentative group within the neighbourhood ( such as Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny and increasingly Manchester ) .
7 The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it .
8 VAT was introduced in April 1973 and from then the standard rate has varied from ten per cent to eight per cent to fifteen per cent , and the Treasury is empowered to change the rate at any time .
9 ‘ Expected ’ family size , recorded in the General Household Survey , has varied from 2.28 to 2.24 ( table 4.5 ) .
10 Support from further afield within the health service for individual Family Development Nurses has varied from facilitation , tentatively supporting , to critical , though as results gradually become more evident , support is more forthcoming .
11 Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s .
12 The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends .
13 ‘ The legal advice required has varied from transacting a management buy-out and dismissing a senior director to a host of commercial contracts .
14 Similar findings have been made by others although in the different studies , the time of onset of the plateau has varied from three to seven years .
15 The magnitude of the decrease has varied from a fall of 88% in the white population of USA to a much smaller decrease in Norway .
16 However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case .
17 The sum lent by Macrae is not known and reports have varied from £5,000 to £15,000 .
18 Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical point to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon .
19 County and borough council reactions have varied from sympathetic to dismissive , she said .
20 Initial ‘ gut ’ reactions have varied from righteous indignation to cynical amusement , from vocal anger to silent embarrassment .
21 As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time .
22 Organisational metaphors have varied from the primitive tribe with its constituent hunting bands , to the ship with its crew , to the biological organism , according to the emphasis which the writer wished to put on particular aspects of organisational life .
23 Estimates of the reduction in global ozone concentration which may be caused by CFCs have varied from 3 to 20 per cent ( figure 6.4 ) ( Hulm , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1982a , 1984 ) .
24 The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene .
25 Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical period to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon .
26 Procedures after the discovery of these tumours have varied from mere follow up to radical gastrectomy .
27 Estimates of constipation have varied from 0.3% of the paediatric population to as high as 8% .
28 Estimates of its K d have varied from 10 - 1 1 to 10 - 9 M and the number of receptors/cell from 100 to 10000 .
29 For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse .
30 The species and ailments have varied from dogs needing surgery to iguanas feeling under the weather .
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