Similar words: to some extent, extend, extended, extension, extensive, external, tent, patent. Meaning: [ɪk'stent] n. 1. the point or degree to which something extends 2. the distance or area or volume over which something extends.
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151 Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
152 To some extent the answer is self-evident: State and national politics run along distinct and not always parallel tracks.
153 It was not easy, however, to show whether, and to what extent, these cells were activated.
154 The extent to which school-to-work can raise academic achievement is less clear.
155 Style pages cover Spitalfields stories regularly, to the extent that now only people with money can afford to live there.
156 There is sometimes overlap, but never to an extent that it becomes annoying.
157 I didn't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life.
158 The extent to which cells actually use such mechanisms is still being investigated.
159 Yet individually, advisers and advisory teachers earned considerable respect for the extent and quality of support they provided.
160 We have no reliable statistics on the extent of child abuse and neglect. Sentencedict.com
161 Somehow news correspondents covering the administration, including me, never grasped the full extent of the guerrilla war within the administration.
162 To what extent are these factors likely to be present in modern analytical laboratories?
163 But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.
164 The extent to which a person is annoyed by the perception of an odour varies.
165 Rabbits are not territorial creatures to the extent of evicting other rabbits moving into their home ground from further afield.
166 She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent, and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck.
167 The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine.
168 When Johnson was diagnosed, he ceased physical activity while doctors determined the extent of his illness.
169 The extent of the shift registered by these approaches becomes clear when compared with its antecedents.
170 On the other hand the accountancy profession has only contributed, to a limited extent, to improving commercial and professional accountability.
171 We are ... concerned about the extent of the misplaced adverse criticism social workers have received from the media and elsewhere.
172 The movie succeeds to a modest extent by taking full advantage of the romantic screen personas of its two stars.
173 A comparative analysis of course documents made the extent and systematic nature of the changes quite evident.
174 Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
175 It is estimated that approximately 500,000 adults in Great Britain suffer from agoraphobia to some extent.
176 Pedestrians under the influence of alcohol also feature but the true extent of this is not know.
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