to a great extent

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Scientists from the UoC's Department of Chemistry have now shown that the structure of nucleotides can be modified to a great extent in the laboratory.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2024

It is a question that will always be - to a great extent - unanswerable.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

Although experts agree that the consequences of global warming will inevitably unfold over the next two to three decades, what happens beyond that will, to a great extent, depend on actions today.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

On June 25, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh said that the government and armed forces had been “able to control the violence to a great extent in the past week.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2023

This happened to a great extent during the final phase of capitalism, roughly between 1920 and 1940.

From "1984" by George Orwell