to a certain extent

collocation in English

meanings of to, certainand extent

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to
preposition
uk /tuː/ us /tuː/
used before a verb to show that it is in ...
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certain
adjective
uk /ˈsɜː.tən/ us /ˈsɝː.tən/
having no doubt or knowing exactly that something is true, or known to be true, correct, exact, ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk /ɪkˈstent/ us /ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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Examples of to a certain extent

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They will be reduced and to a certainextent they will be systematic.
This difference was to a certainextent unavoidable in order to match evenly the noncognate and cognate stimuli along the three gender values.
If the composition of the family changes, the house can be adjusted, and to a certainextent enlarged.
To a certainextent, this was anticipated before the study was undertaken.
Rather, it indicates that certain capitalists could not only influence, but, to a certainextent, direct the flow of (government-controlled) resources into their own hands.
Thus, these forms are to a certainextent morphologically integrated, although this is only visible in the plural form.
The marriages of daughters and, to a certainextent, younger sons were used to weave family relationship networks in the village and nearby communities.
However, to a certainextent, they also express a 'causation of existence'.
For not only is the treaty grounded in voluntarism, but so, to a certainextent, is all international law.
But the image of a mass-medium is misleading as mass-media are sources of information that are at least to a certainextent controlled.
To a certainextent, this role can be described as compensating for the lack of systematic experimentation.
As such, they are flexible in character and possess to a certainextent the ability to adjust to changing circumstances.
To a certainextent, biomass production is directly related, and the sporulation frequency and number of sporocarps are inversely related to applied phosphorus.
This was already known to a certainextent, for the hospital, through current arrangements.
Unless we ask these questions, the study will remain static and, to a certainextent, descriptive.
It is inherent in the pragmatic feature 'strength of necessity' that any measurement is bound to be relative and to a certainextent vague.
To a certainextent, the journal created an imagined professional community composed of the growing socio-professional class that included judges, public prosecutors, attorneys and clerks.
To a certainextent, these effects are transmitted, in an impersonal form, through the price mechanism as is well-known to economists.
To a certainextent we all have to find our own way.
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