surprising degree
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsurprisinganddegree
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surprising
adjective
uk/səˈpraɪ.zɪŋ/us/sɚˈpraɪ.zɪŋ/
unexpected:
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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(Definition ofsurprisinganddegreefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That question has inspired asurprisingdegreeof rancor.
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Finally, the simulations document a somewhatsurprisingdegreeof heterogeneity among the plans surveyed.
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These results indicate that spatial and temporal variation in tropical climate has resulted in asurprisingdegreeof physiological diversity.
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Earlier studies using a spelling choice task have found asurprisingdegreeof knowledge on the part of young children.
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Up to now that has happened to asurprisingdegree.
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The debate has also shown asurprisingdegreeof unanimity.
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There was asurprisingdegreeof co-operation.
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Indeed, asurprisingdegreeof cross-national learning is evident in health policy, with many countries considering the same set of ideas at roughly the same time.
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Even to foreigners, some of these people show asurprisingdegreeof frankness.
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There has been asurprisingdegreeof consensus on both those matters.
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There has been asurprisingdegreeof unanimity between the interests concerned.
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In many instances, owing to the admirable hospital treatment, these men have recovered in asurprisingdegree.
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Before 1914 there was little threat from concentrations of capital within the distribution system, and retailer associations exercised asurprisingdegreeof influence within the representative institutions of the state.
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But there is asurprisingdegreeof activism in many local areas, and social organisations that struggle actively against manipulation and instrumentalisation by the armed and unarmed right and left.
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Even when clinical trials used more conventional neurocognitive batteries with the same or similar measures, there was asurprisingdegreeof inconsistency in the categorization of tests by cognitive domain.
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We came to the conclusion that one could satisfactorily identify the type of oil by observation from the air to a quitesurprisingdegree.
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Our mission encountered nothing but co-operative courtesy and asurprisingdegreeof forthcoming response given the inevitably intrusive nature of our questioning of their system.
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The business of farming depends to asurprisingdegreeon alternately moving water off the land and bringing it back again.
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I return to the point that there has been asurprisingdegreeof consensus about the need to exercise some control to avoid excesses.
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To asurprisingdegree, most of the criticism was directed towards the application of the country of origin principle to the provision of services.
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They are, however, capable to asurprisingdegreeof acquiring an understanding of human speech.
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All semiconductor junction devices exhibit the effect, some to asurprisingdegree.
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To asurprisingdegree, the number of surviving pieces differs between sources.
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I believe that if they look, particularly with this order in mind, they will find such opportunities to asurprisingdegreeand perhaps in surprising locations.
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We noted that there was asurprisingdegreeof common ground on some essential principles, and it is important for me first to map out that common ground.
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