to an excessive degree
Example Sentences
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It may be that this group’s winner will be mediocre to an excessive degree.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2014
Nicaragua argued the territorial rights extending out from the islets' shores deprived it of offshore economic rights to an excessive degree.
From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2012
Whilst Carver was making over it a passage which lasted near twenty-four hours—it thundered and lightened during the greatest part of the time to an excessive degree.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by Jones, James Athearn
His last years were fully and to an excessive degree occupied by it; his health, both of body and mind, threatened to give way; but he refused to take the rest that was prescribed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Puech & Lacamp were prudent to an excessive degree; they never risked a thousand crowns without the greatest fear, and thus their house, a veritable hole, was an unimportant one.
From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
