be heavily into something

heavily | American Dictionary

heavily
adverb
us/ˈhev·ə·li/
to a great degree, or with a great amount or force:
heavily armed
She’s heavily involved in politics.
The news weighed heavily on his mother.

heavily | Business English

heavily
adverb
uk /ˈhevɪli/us
a lot or to a large degree:
In France and Switzerland, the agriculture sector is heavily subsidised.
China is heavily dependent on coal, which currently accounts for about 68% of its energy.
We are looking to invest heavily in property over the next 24 months.

Examples of heavily

heavily
There was a common perception, based either on past experience or on the experiences of acquaintances, that statutory help was heavily restricted and inflexible.
Their activity is heavily underwritten through the state health insurance schemes and the government's finance of medical, paramedical and nursing education and training.
Work also provides a series of routines giving structure and meaning to people's lives, upon which they rely more or less heavily.
Heavily polluted means that the index is between 1 and 2, making the water unsuitable for body contact.
The hypothesis posits that, under comparable physical conditions, heavily eroded areas occur in highly populated regions.
Because such scales rely heavily on motor skills, they may not be sensitive to cognitive deficits that appear to emerge suddenly at school-age.
The molecular section oers a number of interesting and detailed chapters of scienti®c value and relevance, with the role of transposable elements featured heavily.
Consequently, they may have to rely more heavily on other cues to word meaning.
However, their result is again heavily dependent on social choices being complete.
Nonetheless, this relation is heavily based upon associations observed in adolescence and thereafter.
Even describing examples of these two putative selection processes cogently, leans heavily on the contrast with multi-step selection.
The pharynx lies within the tentorium and is heavily chitinised, gradually increasing in diameter towards the posterior end.
Thereafter, as would be expected, the plant cotton may become heavily infested.
The approach taken starts from first principles and relies heavily on mathematics to guide the arguments.
Accessory minerals include secondary phengite after feldspar and biotite, rutile needles in biotite, red garnet, monazite, heavily altered, orthite, epidote after biotite, and zircon.
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