astonishing degree
collocation in Englishmeaningsofastonishinganddegree
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astonishing
adjective
uk/əˈstɒn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us/əˈstɑː.nɪ.ʃɪŋ/
very ...
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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(Definition ofastonishinganddegreefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thirdly, underlying all this is what can only be described as anastonishingdegreeof disorganization in the text itself.
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His speech portrayed with anastonishingdegreeof clarity so much that has been at the back of this problem.
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Even a single motor parked in a road can impede traffic flow to anastonishingdegree.
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Having heard 19 of them, they have expressed anastonishingdegreeof unanimity.
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The effect on those men has been to reduce what is known—to use the technical jargon—as recidivism to the mostastonishingdegree.
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They differ in their languages, customs and way of life to anastonishingdegree.
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That seems to be part and parcel of the reallyastonishingdegreeof speculation and inaccuracy that has gone on.
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This small measure has had a reallyastonishingdegreeof support in the other place.
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Such a view displays anastonishingdegreeof self-loathing, especially given some of the programming to which we are already subjected daily.
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There is anastonishingdegreeof faith in the men still engaged in the venture.
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They use our stuff to a quiteastonishingdegree.
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Anastonishingdegreeof complacency has come across from them today.
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That they have been impartial in anastonishingdegreewill be shown by looking at the records of these courts.
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They were able to impose a world-wide embargo which shows theastonishingdegreeto which we have given up our independence.
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The interesting result has been theastonishingdegreeof efficiency in the mining of gold compared with the mining of some other minerals.
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He has been irresponsible, to anastonishingdegree, in his relationships with other people equally responsible with himself for the conduct of education in this country.
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The masonry of the buildings shows anastonishingdegreeof perfection, where many of the immense structures survived the 1975 earthquake more or less intact.
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He is, undoubtedly, a genius, but also sociopathic to anastonishingdegree.
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