Variation in sentence

282 examples of Variation in a sentence

The variation is very, very small.

'Theme and variations' is one of those forms that require a certain kind of intellectual activity, because you are always comparing the variation with the theme that you hold in your mind.

You might say that the theme is nature and everything that follows is a variation on the subject.

They aren't efficient, but they give us limitless capacity for adaptation, variation and invention.

Talos was intended to fulfill his duties day after day, with no variation.

Thirdly, variation in tempo.

And yet, why should there be so much variation in quality and in service, and that was the fundamental principle that we followed when we designed the delivery systems.

And typically, there is a lot of variation, but if you have a dragonfly with, say, a one year life cycle, which is quite typical, the larva, living in the fresh water, lives for 10 or 11 months.

All of this is a variation of the if-then model.

You've got your own variation on that.

And, in fact, when we did some experiments looking at this, what we found is that 46 percent of the variation in how many friends you have is explained by your genes.

For instance, 47 percent in the variation in whether your friends know each other is attributable to your genes.

And finally, we even found that 30 percent of the variation in whether or not people are in the middle or on the edge of the network can also be attributed to their genes.

What I found out I was studying is really the difference in how the Galapagos changes, the most extreme variation.

So the oceans don't always act together; they act differently, but that is the kind of variation that penguins have to live with, and it's not easy.

Here's a slide looking at the genetic variation of flu and comparing that to HIV, a much wilder target.

If we look at the DNA variation among humans of different races from different continents, the actual DNA difference is only 0.1 percent.

There's tremendous variation within Africa, which we very often make that it's equal everything.

What can be said of this independent effort beyond the fact that it was shot with television cameras, and whether that was by conceit or budget constraints doesn't make the watching of this variation on a theme by Romero any easier.

It's another variation on the oft-told tale of two people getting married and having to share their brood of kids.

We watch each episode waiting for something that never happens; I am not asking that every secret be revealed at once, but how about some variation in the story lines?

Opening with a funny prologue which apes a Twisted Sister video from the '80s, "The Pick of Destiny" is a fairly well-produced movie aimed at older kids; it occasionally resembles nothing more than a middle-aged variation of "Wayne's World", with jokey-stoner interludes and a climactic bout with Beelzebub himself, yet Black and Gass have an enormously comfortable rapport (they also acted as producers, co-wrote the script and all the music).

Apart from being a clever and well-marketed variation on the nowadays hugely popular horror genre and a splendid formula to attract potential new fans in general, I always somewhat considered "Supernatural" as a massively giant homage towards the genre through the decades.

Even Kristin Scott Thomas fans, myself included, knew it would be a variation of her again playing the love interest of her eldest uncle.

As a big fan of all things vampire related, I am always happy to see a new variation of the vampire mythos, in this case, a ghoul-like creature residing in a Lovecraftian other dimension.

This is one of the better Stooges shorts due to the storyline and wonderful routines (Including the telephone booth scene with Moe & Shemp, reminiscent of Laurel & Hardy's "Berth Marks" and the Marx Brothers famous stateroom scene in "Night At The Opera - here the boys hold their own in their variation of this routine).

This film is a variation of a theme we've all seen over and over again - the Posiedan adventure in Space.

But there are debits, beginning with all that variation from the stage text.

There are some dumb scenes, but it beats the heck out of yet another variation on doing something stupid to not win a million dollars reality game shows.

One of the genres that flourished during the decade of the 30s was the variation of crime fiction known as "the murder mystery", as the addition of sound to films helped to make a more faithful translation to film of what the audiences experienced in the original plays.

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