to a considerable extent

collocation in English

meanings of to, considerableand 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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considerable
adjective
uk /kənˈsɪd.ər.ə.bəl/ us /kənˈsɪd.ɚ.ə.bəl/
large or of ...
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extent
noun[S or U]
uk /ɪkˈstent/ us /ɪkˈstent/
area or ...
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Examples of to a considerable extent

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To a considerableextent, a focus on mechanisms requires minute knowledge of cases rather than a broad understanding of common experiences within a region.
A scientist's credibility depends to a considerableextent on his or her being perceived to be "at home" in a topic.
Although there are notable exceptions, to a considerableextent, psychiatry does not have its own training schemes in research methodology.
They were instrumental for social legislation that, to a considerableextent, has "socialized the family" rather than production firms.
To a considerableextent, these brute facts were the product of the governmental momentum which we have described.
To a considerableextent, the author has also examined the broader political context and impact of the phenomenon.
As the results also suggest, the inability to make this judgment slows down the detection process to a considerableextent.
Another option is that such preactivation will not be effective, because language nodes cannot activate or suppress word activation to any considerableextent.
Future progress will depend to a considerableextent on a combination of approaches and work at different scales.
His demand for a critical view of history is to a considerableextent triggered by the political situation itself.
The results of the focal observation suggested that malkohas follow the movement of macaque groups to a considerableextent.
To a considerableextent, the tension between majority rule and constitutionalism is a conflict over time horizons.
To abstract a set of principles from the sound phenomena is to a considerableextent an interpretative process.
Relationship problems were defined to a considerableextent through cultural filters, and strategies adopted to handle these problems tended to be culturally approved ones.
The survival and allocation of transgenic blastomeres, in chimera, are probably influenced in a considerableextent by culture conditions.
To a considerableextent, the different choices that investigators have made have reflected their theoretical positions.
It is necessary to anchor an examination like the following, which to a considerableextent involves speculative assumptions, in firm evidence.
The performance of the method depends to a considerableextent on the accuracy of the noise model used in the simulation.
Planning for retirement thus appears to a considerableextent to be part of a much more general orientation to life, and planning.
To a post-positivist of whatever stripe, however, they are distinct, and to a considerableextent orthogonal.
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