great extent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandextent
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk/ɪkˈstent/us/ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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(Definition ofgreatandextentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These readings to agreatextentpre-exist, and can easily do without our discipline.
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Thus, the spending of the new pesticide tax proceeds, to agreatextent, would redistribute money from conventional to organic farming.
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However, the approximate elliptical vortices become elongated to an arbitrarilygreatextentin this limit, whereas the actual solutions do not.
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This study demonstrates that there are notable differences between nouns, and that verb number is to agreatextentdetermined by the noun.
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Reproduction may not occur to anygreatextentin these secondary hosts.
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As a result, the lack of cases does not affect the model fit to anygreatextent.
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The exercise of power is, of course, determined to agreatextentby underlying social inequalities.
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Divisions of property, to agreatextent, depended on the family's size and economic wealth.
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This is to agreatextentcompensated for in effect, if not in spirit, by greater human use of forests.
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In the specific case of "perception," one's interpretations depend, to agreatextent, on one's definition or understanding of that term.
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The uterus is of nogreatextentand the largest specimen contained less than thirty eggs.
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The details differ agreatextent, and there are no par ts where the texts coincide.
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To agreatextent, marriage was seen as the only option for women, apart from the handful of richer women who went into convents.
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Economic organization is to agreatextentshaped by historical and cultural context.
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In languages with grammatical gender, gender is to agreatextentarbitrary.
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Attempts to bridge the transmission gap, however, have not focused to anygreatextenton alternative research methodologies and a reconceptualization of the process.
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The latter were to agreatextentnon-intentional effects.
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Tax initiatives were first ' channelled ' through the military and, to agreatextent, were successfully resisted by lobbies and special interest groups.
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It appears that there are two groups which, to agreatextent, are mutually exclusive.
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However, almost no health systems rely to anygreatextenton unfettered health care markets.
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