limited extent

collocation in English

meaningsoflimitedandextent

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limited
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk
/ɪkˈstent/us
/ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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(Definition oflimitedandextentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflimited extent

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A fundamental truth about soundscape compositions is that they emerge, they can only be pre-planned to alimitedextent.
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This happened during the 1990s, but to alimitedextent.
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Agency 6 has diversified its products to alimitedextentand specialized in health services assessment.
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However, the election campaign and subsequent events indicate that, so far, this substitution has only been achieved to alimitedextent.
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In that context, the above findings help to identify, and to alimitedextentillustrate, a number of issues.
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Moreover, the balancing of competing considerations is only to alimitedextentsubject to court review.
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The effect of tillage system on cover crop production has been previously investigated to alimitedextent.
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The primary application of a history graph is to describe alimitedextentin time and space, called a story.
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These four patients had no obvious deficits and, initially, they were only affected by their disease to a verylimitedextent.
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Nonprofessional speakers are the greatest users of the innovative form, but still only to alimitedextent.
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Seismic facies are used to alimitedextent, for example in the identification of seismically mappable slump deposits.
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I will also discuss, to a morelimitedextent, how postmodernists have sought support for their own ideological arguments in immunology.
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Although the linearization approach is common, general perturbation methods have been used only to alimitedextentin economics.
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The required legislation was introduced only partially and was applied only to alimitedextent.
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However, to thelimitedextentthat a such an effect is present, it works in the predicted direction.
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Given its lack of short-time goals this new prescription probably influenced municipal decisions only to a verylimitedextent.
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Thelimitedextentto which services were costed, and the manner in which this was done, also reduced the potential for change.
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Firewood use only declines to a verylimitedextentin the top end of the rural income distribution.
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The above effects are of morelimitedextentfor the peak assemblage when porphyroblastic phases are considered.
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