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
• Investing in the grid would pay for itself, to a great extent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2010
• The 2024 team will hinge to a great extent on that relationship.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Whether authors realize it or not, the gamble is justified to a great extent by copyright.
  — Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
• 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• Outdated computer systems were blamed as well as the weather, which did not affect other airlines to a great extent.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 commute is, to a great extent, a modern phenomenon.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
• Rice’s excellence as a hitter has been obscured to a great extent.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• And to a great extent that’s the point — Charlie thrived in debate.
  — Gabriel Nadales, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025