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

The occasions, indeed, on which it had manifested itself to an excessive degree, had been but few.

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George

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

People may wonder whether his standard was not, to an excessive degree, a standard of subtlety rather than of creative imagination—at least, in his later period.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert