to a considerable extent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofto,considerableandextent
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to
preposition
uk/tuː/us/tuː/
used before a verb to show that it is in ...
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considerable
adjective
uk/kənˈsɪd.ər.ə.bəl/us/kənˈsɪd.ɚ.ə.bəl/
large or of ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk/ɪkˈstent/us/ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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(Definition ofto,considerableandextentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To aconsiderableextent, a focus on mechanisms requires minute knowledge of cases rather than a broad understanding of common experiences within a region.
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A scientist's credibility depends to aconsiderableextenton his or her being perceived to be "at home" in a topic.
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Although there are notable exceptions, to aconsiderableextent, psychiatry does not have its own training schemes in research methodology.
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They were instrumental for social legislation that, to aconsiderableextent, has "socialized the family" rather than production firms.
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To aconsiderableextent, these brute facts were the product of the governmental momentum which we have described.
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To aconsiderableextent, the author has also examined the broader political context and impact of the phenomenon.
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As the results also suggest, the inability to make this judgment slows down the detection process to aconsiderableextent.
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Another option is that such preactivation will not be effective, because language nodes cannot activate or suppress word activation to anyconsiderableextent.
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Future progress will depend to aconsiderableextenton a combination of approaches and work at different scales.
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His demand for a critical view of history is to aconsiderableextenttriggered by the political situation itself.
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The results of the focal observation suggested that malkohas follow the movement of macaque groups to aconsiderableextent.
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To aconsiderableextent, the tension between majority rule and constitutionalism is a conflict over time horizons.
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To abstract a set of principles from the sound phenomena is to aconsiderableextentan interpretative process.
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Relationship problems were defined to aconsiderableextentthrough cultural filters, and strategies adopted to handle these problems tended to be culturally approved ones.
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The survival and allocation of transgenic blastomeres, in chimera, are probably influenced in aconsiderableextentby culture conditions.
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To aconsiderableextent, the different choices that investigators have made have reflected their theoretical positions.
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It is necessary to anchor an examination like the following, which to aconsiderableextentinvolves speculative assumptions, in firm evidence.
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The performance of the method depends to aconsiderableextenton the accuracy of the noise model used in the simulation.
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Planning for retirement thus appears to aconsiderableextentto be part of a much more general orientation to life, and planning.
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To a post-positivist of whatever stripe, however, they are distinct, and to aconsiderableextentorthogonal.
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