Collocations withextent
These are words often used in combination withextent.
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alarming extent
In the flat where the tenant was living the damp was penetrating to an alarming extent.
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areal extent
The first and last units have the least areal extent.
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exact extent
It is difficult to gauge from pauper letters, quarter sessions or other avenues the exact extent of administrative incompetence in out-parish networks.
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extent of damage
The extent of damage can be controlled easily, and kept constant across replicates.
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extent of discrimination
Not enough is known about the extent of discrimination for legislation to be brought forward at this stage.
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full extent
The natural lottery rule suggests that each negligent party is under a duty to compensate the victim for the full extent of harm suffered.
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great extent
These readings to a great extent pre-exist, and can easily do without our discipline.
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greatest extent
When those with different occupations are compared, the greatest extent of village endogamy is seen among the shepherds.
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ice extent
Sea-ice variability is high, but data from satellite remote sensing show a significant decrease in ice extent during the last quarter century.
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lesser extent
It also draws on an extensive literature on space, spanning linguistics, psychology, cognitive studies, and, to a considerably lesser extent, philosophy and anthropology.
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limited extent
A fundamental truth about soundscape compositions is that they emerge, they can only be pre-planned to a limited extent.
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maximum extent
There is no evidence that the present extent of outcrop relates to maximum extent of the sea.
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precise extent
However, clarifying the precise extent to which this hypothesis holds has proven difficult and on occasion controversial.
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remarkable extent
While the policy agenda was dominated to a remarkable extent by comprehensive proposals offered by this 'central structure', policy outputs look much more fragmented.
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spatial extent
We begin by outlining the basic alterations to models without spatial extent and discuss relevant time scales for achieving homochirality in a spatially extended system.
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to a certain extent
They will be reduced and to a certain extent they will be systematic.
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to a considerable extent
To a considerable extent, a focus on mechanisms requires minute knowledge of cases rather than a broad understanding of common experiences within a region.
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to a large extent
To a large extent the studies are connected with the church and churchyard.
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varying extent
The pulmonary trunk is characteristically hypoplastic, but to a varying extent.
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