Sample Sentences for
variance
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  • The study found that variance in working memory improves sight reading of music, but that hours of practice has over four times as much effect.
  • The biweekly checkups involve diet consultations, and we monitor any variances in your overall health.  (source)
    variances = differences
  • The variance depends a little on luck and a great deal on the extent of litigation.  (source)
    variance = difference
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  • Bourne uses 'final protection,' a minor variance.  (source)
    variance = difference
  • It was the million-to-one thing I spoke of earlier, the thing which even Eric could not properly assess, because of the variances of powers among the individual members of the family.  (source)
    variances = differences
  • The only variance in the words from tribe to tribe was the refrain that identified the singers.  (source)
    variance = difference
  • The audio recorders had picked up no unusual sounds, and neither the microwave nor the electromagnetic detector had registered the slightest energy variances.  (source)
    variances = differences
  • Data on 7420 subjects tested by H1H2 program for multifactorial analysis of variance; later test by ANOVAR program; final discrimination by CLASSIF program.  (source)
    variance = difference
  • But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data are too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest.  (source)
  • ... he says in a caustic, cutting voice which surprises Sophie, so at variance does it seem with his previous milky equanimity.  (source)
  • Everyone was, at a minimal estimate, "a good egg" or "a decent sort," and motivation was never judged to be at variance with outward show.  (source)
  • He walked through the living room to the brightly lit kitchen, thinking with each step that he must stay with his speech, exactly as he'd rehearsed, no variance.  (source)
  • The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.†  (source)
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