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extent

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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”

That was the extent of it during the peak of the flames, and the numbers that swooshed around in the press the next day.

I did not think that it would go to the extent it did, but our office was not shocked.

To what extent was the testimony the grand jury heard corroborated or contradicted by forensic evidence?

But what a magnificent plain is this we are entering upon: it is of immense extent.

Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.

Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.

M'Bongo and his whole court are now clothed, I am happy to say, at least to a certain extent.

And it is too true that ages of subjugation have demoralized, to a fearful extent, the Italian People.

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On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extent, such as: amount, breadth, degree, duration, expansion, and intensity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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