fromEnglish Grammar Today
Largelymeans ‘almost completely’:
The downturn in the economy in the 1970s waslargelydue to oil prices.
Warning:
We don’t uselargelyto mean ‘enormously’, ‘greatly’ or ‘significantly’:
Traffic flows in the city centre have beengreatlyimproved by the opening of the new ring road.
Not: …have been largely improved…
We don’t uselargelyto mean ‘widely’ or ‘by many people’:
This issue has beenwidelydebated in recent years.
Not: …has been largely debated…