Country
Regulations vary with country.
Why is it possible that the "country" doesn't have an article in front or it's not the bare plural "countries"?
Is it grammatically the same thing with, say, "from place to place"?
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" The AHD defines "by" in this context as "with respect to", which calls for a general word after it. "
- " The AHD defines "by" in this context as "with respect to", which calls for a general word after it.
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I would say that "by" is much more usual there: "Regulations vary by country." The AHD defines "by" in this context as "with respect to", which calls for a general word after it. It's more like "per" than "from": "There are three administrators per county."
0In addition to what's already been said, I'd like to add that "by country" and "with country" are not always synonymous.
e.g
The largest wine producers by country (NOT with country) are France, Italy, Australia, Us etc.
The semantic function of "with country" seems to be similar to that of, say, age in "Not all wines improve equally with age".
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