How to Use to a great extent in a Sentence
to a great extent
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The world of the very rich has changed, and this building has, to a great extent, not.
— Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023 -
But, at the same time, the internet has changed that to a great extent.
— Hazlitt, 19 July 2023 -
The energy sector has shaped the world to a great extent.
— Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2020 -
The rules depend to a great extent on team spirit, but that won’t work in society at large.
— Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021 -
New Right conservatism was premised to a great extent on the idea that the social fabric was torn to pieces by the tumultuous 1960s.
— Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023 -
These also depend to a great extent upon how well the giver knows the taste of the person who will be receiving the gift.
— Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021 -
Those will be the bullet points that concern Indiana’s players, and to a great extent Woodson.
— Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2023 -
This coincided to a great extent with the emergence of cloud computing.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 May 2022 -
Only about 10% of the tournament's logo items will be available online, so to a great extent, the pavilion will be an exclusive place to shop.
— Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021 -
And John has reported on that to a great extent ... and really extensively to his credit.
— USA TODAY, 11 July 2021 -
Western observers who track the Russian space industry realize the program is deeply troubled, and to a great extent running on the fumes of its past and very real glory.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2021 -
Outdated computer systems were blamed as well as the weather, which did not affect other airlines to a great extent.
— Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2023 -
So how a finished product tastes depends, to a great extent, on how individual winemakers wield that tool in their toolkit.
— Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022 -
The answer would have depended to a great extent on the initiatives of local actors and the competition among them, the developments in neighboring countries, and luck—just as the outcome in Bosnia did.
— Rory Stewart, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2021 -
Looking back, a blending of Western rock and Egyptian folk music is carved in Amir’s memories of his childhood and teenage years — a fusion that would eventually shape his own music to a great extent.
— Mayya Al Ogaily, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2024 -
That was because newspapers were supported to a great extent by the advertising of department stores.
— Daniel Akst, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022 -
Liu demonstrates abundantly that the Chicago School reading of Smith dominated only briefly, and that Smith scholarship has to a great extent already left it behind.
— Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023 -
At this point in the pandemic, there are two potential forces that could increase the number of reinfections, though experts say there’s not clear evidence of either occurring to a great extent.
— Andrew Joseph, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021 -
While the broader Indian film industry rebounded to a great extent in 2022, propelled by the success of several big films from India’s south, Hindi cinema still lagged behind.
— Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023 -
This sort of posturing by biologists strikes me as similar to what happens in social science (to a great extent all of what falls under the rubric of sociology seems to be posturing with doctorates).
— Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2019 -
Inventory management depends on the predictability of supplier lead time to a great extent.
— Alex Koshulko, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023 -
What this means is that the Fabulous Invalid is finally back to its usual semi-predictable, mostly recognizable self now, to a great extent recovered from that unprecedented year spent in cryonic suspension.
— Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023 -
The sophisticated intellectual system of Chinese Islam rooted in a wholly indigenous lexicon was to a great extent marginalized, as world normative Islam came to be the standard.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2010 -
The contemporary wind power industry, which has spawned hundreds of thousands of spinning rotors generating electricity without putting greenhouse gases into the air, was to a great extent born in a notoriously windy region of Denmark called Jutland.
— Stanley Reed, New York Times, 13 May 2023 -
The development of Egyptology was driven to a great extent by national and personal rivalries, and particularly Franco-British competition.
— Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
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