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Meanings of to a great extent in English

Portuguese
pesadamente

To a considerable degree.

pesadamente
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Examples for "heavily"
Examples for "heavily"
1
Scotland and Northern Ireland voted heavily in favour of staying in Europe.
Radio NZ
2
The coalition government included Hezbollah, a heavily armed military and political organisation.
Reuters
3
Step 6: -Designateimportant, heavily used corridors for high speed rail system.
Wired
4
Other deputies said parliament, heavily divided, should still vote on the budget.
Reuters
5
The heavily Democratic state had not elected a Democratic governor since 1992.
Reuters
Usage of to a great extent in English
1
The response of the individual cases sometimes varied to a great extent.
Pubmed
2
This was, to a great extent, because of a single word: Sarajevo.
The new yorker
3
Cell walls are involved, to a great extent, in mediating plant-microbe interactions.
Pubmed
4
War was their pastime; it is so now to a great extent.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
5
But on the other hand it prevented infanticide to a great extent.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life...
6
The difficulty was to a great extent one of his own making.
Darwin and Modern Science
7
The audiences are large, and consist to a great extent of children.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
8
The screw propeller is still to a great extent an unsolved problem.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
9
Fortunately, they had burned off the long grass to a great extent.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi...
10
So, it must be confessed, it is to a great extent here.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
11
We learn the pronunciation of words, to a great extent, by imitation.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
12
We have the command, to a great extent, over our own lot.
Thrift
13
This was true of Beethoven with his symphonies, to a great extent.
Beethoven, a character study / Together with Wagner's indebtedne...
14
Left-handed polygamy prevails to a great extent among the Citizen Mottu's admirers.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
15
All are capable, to a great extent, of being prevented or remedied.
The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
16
However, to a great extent the employers are missing the point.
The Irish Times
Translations for to a great extent
Portuguese
pesadamente