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
But as the truck system was generally said to be practised there to an excessive degree, I received evidence from various persons acquainted with the island, viz.:
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by Guthrie, William
The occasions, indeed, on which it had manifested itself to an excessive degree, had been but few.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
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
