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in great measure



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More and more, researchers acknowledge that high blood pressure and other ailments that strike Black Americans disproportionately can, in great measure, be traced to the inequities of Black life in America.

From Seattle Times May 25, 2023

He was aided in great measure by the fact that oil prices suddenly went through the roof.

From Salon Jan. 18, 2020

Ypres’s notoriety, after all, was in great measure built not only on the ferocity of the fighting, and a victory won at great cost, but by the conditions in which it was fought.

From The Guardian Jul. 30, 2017

But owing in great measure to Dr. Bekenstein’s work and to the application of quantum theory, that view has been substantially altered.

From Washington Post Aug. 27, 2015

By the 1700s, women divers from Jeju and surrounding islands outnumbered their male counterparts, due in great measure to the fact that so many Korean men had died during wars or deep-sea fishing accidents.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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