varying extent

collocation in English

meaningsofvaryingandextent

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varying
adjective
uk
/ˈveə.ri.ɪŋ/us
/ˈver.i.ɪŋ/
changing or different in amount or level, especially from one occasion to another, or from one person or thing ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk
/ɪkˈstent/us
/ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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(Definition ofvaryingandextentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The pulmonary trunk is characteristically hypoplastic, but to avaryingextent.
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By varying the parameters of this function, we can create a wide range of sigmoidal interaction functions, ofvaryingextentand steepness.
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Tested factors revealed avaryingextentof protective activity against oxidative stress caused by hydrogen peroxide.
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Assuming a benefice involved embracing an obligatory mode of life, modeled to avaryingextenton monastic and clerical prototypes.
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They do not all receive them, and those who do receive them to avaryingextent.
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Those characteristics are shared, to avaryingextent, by the other sub-sectors into which the centrally funded colleges are divided.
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The information available to me, which may be incomplete to avaryingextentin different years, is shown in the following table.
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Such international comparisons are technically difficult and can be misleading because of thevaryingextentof the public sector.
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In some areas payments are up to date, in others in arrears to avaryingextentowing to staff shortages.
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In-patient facilities will continue to be needed to avaryingextent.
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They have done so to avaryingextent.
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This applies to avaryingextentin other places, too.
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He is however associated to a widelyvaryingextentwith a large number of studies of sub-regions, which are usually commissioned by the local planning authorities involved.
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Individual states often choose to make use of criminal codes which are often based, to avaryingextenton the model code.
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As many as nineteen hundreds are mentioned, but these were ofvaryingextent, some containing only one manor, some from twenty to thirty.
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As with other forms of criticism, technical language is used to avaryingextentto convey impressions and views precisely.
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The solitary adult is brown withvaryingextentof green colour depending on the colour of the vegetation.
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