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

"Israel - like Britain, and to a great extent like Canada, too - is at the U.S. end of the spectrum," Ziv Katzir, director of national AI planning at the Israel Innovation Authority, told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jun. 5, 2023

From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared.

From "1984" by George Orwell