Usage of "to a great extent"

Portuguese

To a considerable degree.

Usage of to a great extent in English

The response of the individual cases sometimes varied to a great extent. 
 Pubmed 

This was, to a great extent, because of a single word: Sarajevo. 
 The new yorker 

Cell walls are involved, to a great extent, in mediating plant-microbe interactions. 
 Pubmed 

War was their pastime; it is so now to a great extent. 
 Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond 

But on the other hand it prevented infanticide to a great extent. 
 Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life... 

The difficulty was to a great extent one of his own making. 
 Darwin and Modern Science 

The audiences are large, and consist to a great extent of children. 
 Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati... 

The screw propeller is still to a great extent an unsolved problem. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 

Fortunately, they had burned off the long grass to a great extent. 
 A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi... 

So, it must be confessed, it is to a great extent here. 
 Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial 

We learn the pronunciation of words, to a great extent, by imitation. 
 Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader 

We have the command, to a great extent, over our own lot. 
 Thrift 

This was true of Beethoven with his symphonies, to a great extent. 
 Beethoven, a character study / Together with Wagner's indebtedne... 

Left-handed polygamy prevails to a great extent among the Citizen Mottu's admirers. 
 Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris 

All are capable, to a great extent, of being prevented or remedied. 
 The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease 

However, to a great extent the employers are missing the point. 
 The Irish Times 

Translations for to a great extent

Portuguese

Meanings of to a great extent in English