Example sentences of "has 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 .
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