1 I was amazed at the extent of his knowledge.

2 The playground covers over an acre in extent.

3 She cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster.

4 She was exaggerating the true extent of the problem.

5 I agree with you to some extent.

6 He'd always been odd, but not to this extent.

7 What is the extent of your garden?

8 To an extent you have something there.

9 This jog warmed me to a certain extent.

10 The overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear.

11 The open ground was several acres in extent.

12 It is difficult to assess the full extent of the damage.

13 They finally awoke to the full extent of the problem.

14 From the roof we could see the full extent of the park.

15 The government itself has little information on the extent of industrial pollution.

16 To what extent will the budget have to be modified?

17 Both parties were held to be to some extent culpable.

18 The allegations implicated Abe to such an extent he was forced to resign.

19 We all to some extent remember the good times and forget the bad.

20 She was aghast at the extent of the damage to her car.

21 The two categories overlap to some extent.

22 This will relieve pressure on the trains to some extent.

23 When your heart is getting exhausted to a certain extent,[]you are too weak to anger.

24 Through doing this, the teacher will be able to ascertain the extent to which the child understands what he is reading.

25 Genius is hard work, someone once said. If this is not entirely correct, at least it is to a great extent right.

26 The new race track is nearly six miles in extent.

27 I know it seems that only love what you are trained to live up to what extent.

28 The pollution of the forest has seriously affected plant life and, to a lesser extent, wildlife.

29 Both drinking and smoking among young people are increasing to an alarming extent.

30 No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.

1 I was amazed at the extent of his knowledge.

2 The playground covers over an acre in extent.

3 She cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster.

4 She was exaggerating the true extent of the problem.

5 I agree with you to some extent.

6 He'd always been odd, but not to this extent.

7 What is the extent of your garden?

8 The overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear.

9 The open ground was several acres in extent.

10 This will relieve pressure on the trains to some extent.

11 It is difficult to assess the full extent of the damage.

12 Through doing this, the teacher will be able to ascertain the extent to which the child understands what he is reading.

13 The government itself has little information on the extent of industrial pollution.

14 To what extent will the budget have to be modified?

15 Both parties were held to be to some extent culpable.

16 The pollution of the forest has seriously affected plant life and, to a lesser extent, wildlife.

17 The allegations implicated Abe to such an extent he was forced to resign.

18 Both drinking and smoking among young people are increasing to an alarming extent.

19 We all to some extent remember the good times and forget the bad.

20 No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.

21 To some extent, it has something of conservatism complying with reality, and rejects idealism and transcendentalism.

22 From him I learned that a good politician is marked to great extent by his sense of timing.

23 I stretched that piece of elastic to its fullest extent.

31 The operation revealed the extent of the cancer.

32 The extent of their injuries was not immediately apparent.

33 To some extent this was the truth.

34 The extent of the violence came as a shock.

35 To some extent you are correct.

36 He's in debt to the extent of 200.

37 To some extent what she argues is true.

38 They stared open-mouthed at the extent of the damage.

39 He unwound the rope to its full extent.

40 The region is over 10,000 square kilometres in extent.

41 The fourth dimension, time, is also finite in extent.

42 To what extent is this true of all schools?

43 To an extent East-West distrust continued throughout the war.

44 What's the extent of the damage?

45 The decision is to some extent arbitrary.

46 I do agree with him to an extent.

47 Biography must to some extent delineate characters.

48 To some extent, she was responsible for the accident.

49 To what extent did she influence his decision?

50 The full extent of the losses was disclosed yesterday.

51 Most students suffer from exam nerves to some extent.

52 The park is about 20 acres in extent.

53 That's true, to a certain extent.

54 To what extent can he be believed?

55 We need to understand the true extent and nature of the problem.

56 This change of policy reflects a growing understanding of the extent of the problem.

57 More than 1 in 20 of the population is hearing-impaired to some extent.

58 The extent of the flooding can only be fully appreciated when viewed from the air.

59 We need to understand the true extent of the problem.

60 The mood of the meeting turned solemn when the extent of the problem became known.

61 You can't see the full extent of the beach from here.

62 To some extent, we are all responsible for this tragic situation.

63 He was mad to such an extent that he threatened to kill his father.

64 At issue here is the extent to which exam results reflect a student's ability.

65 It is not clear to what extent these views were shared.

66 To some extent, it has something of conservatism complying with reality, and rejects idealism and transcendentalism.

67 They opened out the nets to their full extent .

68 The book discusses the extent to which family life has changed over the past 50 years.

69 Her condition deteriorated to such an extent that a blood transfusion was considered necessary.

70 Most companies operate in conditions that are to a greater or lesser extent competitive.sentence dictionary

71 It is difficult to judge the full extent of the damage.

72 It will affect farmers in Spain and to a lesser extent in France.

73 The rich will not benefit from the proposed changes to the tax system to the same extent as the lower paid.

74 The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.

75 To that extent they helped bring about their own destruction.

76 The law was designed to protect wives, and, to a lesser extent, children.

77 The victory underlined the extent to which Prussia had become a major power.

78 At its fullest extent the Angevin Empire comprised most of western France.

79 A country's future prosperity depends, to an extent, upon the quality of education of its people.

80 At the moment it is difficult to assess the extent of the damage.

81 From him I learned that a good politician is marked to great extent by his sense of timing.

82 They examined the extent to which age affected language-learning ability.

83 The press have tended to understate the extent of the problem.

84 I do agree with his ideas to a certain extent.

85 I finally sat down to tot up the full extent of my debt.

86 The railway network had reached its greatest extent in route mileage.

87 It took us a while to realize the extent of the tragedy.

88 We do not yet know the extent of her injuries.

89 It is impossible to gauge the extent of the damage.

90 The full extent of the damage only became evident the following morning.

91 The car was damaged to such an extent that it couldn't be repaired.

92 The extent of the damage could not have been foreseen.

93 It is too early to assess the full extent of the damage.

94 There was a lot of conjecture as to the extent of her wealth.

95 Its success will depend to a large extent on local attitudes.

96 Larry didn't linger over his work completely, but he did linger over it to some extent.

97 Sales have fallen badly this year, to the extent that we will have to close some of our shops.

98 Until he saw the trapped wagons and animals, he did not realize the full extent of the catastrophe.

99 I like modern art to a certain extent/degree, but I don't like the really experimental stuff.

100 He had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent.

101 He explored the wound with his finger,[http:///extent.html] trying to establish its extent.

102 All mothers share to some extent in the tension of a wedding.

103 Considering the extent of his injuries he's lucky to be alive.

104 He had changed to such an extent that I no longer recognized him.

105 To what extent do you think he's aware of the problem?

106 It was a terrible shock to discover the full extent of the problem.

107 Women do not indulge in crime to the same extent as men.

108 People no longer live in small communities to the same extent as they used to.

109 However, the evidence is thin and, to some extent, ambiguous.

110 Some people hold their beliefs very strongly, even to the extent of being prepared to go to prison for them.

111 Alcoholics are notorious for their ability to deceive themselves about the extent of their problem.

112 To a large extent the life you have depends on who your parents were; it's just the luck of the biological draw.

113 Violence increased to the extent that residents were afraid to leave their homes.

114 It's still not clear to what extent this criticism is originating from within the ruling party.

115 Their commitment was only to maintain the extent of forests, not their biodiversity.

116 I stretched that piece of elastic to its fullest extent.

117 However much you plan an expedition like this, you still have to trust to luck to a certain extent.

118 When the paper bag was blown out to its full extent, it burst.

119 They don't admire his new technique greatly, but they admire it to some extent.

120 Ethiopia and, to a lesser extent/degree, Kenya will be badly affected by the drought.

121 He said he didn't like the president, but not to the extent of wanting to kill him.

122 This statement was important insomuch as it revealed the extent of their knowledge.

123 When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage.

124 It's too early to assess the full extent of the damage.

125 To a certain extent, we are all responsible for this tragic situation.

126 The government sought to play down the extent of the problem.

127 It was and, to a large extent, still is a good show.

128 This was true in Madrid, and to a lesser extent, Valencia and Seville.

129 Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right. Ayn Rand 

130 To a considerable extent these aims are being achieved.

131 To that extent I would allow these appeals.

132 To the extent that he focused on Indochina at all,[] he was ambivalent.

133 The overall limit on the extent to which supplementary capital may be aggregated with reserves is also varied.

134 To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. Albert Einstein 

135 Even though the authorities were unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the disaster, some Western aid was accepted.

136 Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does.

137 To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive, not to say antagonistic.

138 People's beliefs, to a large extent, determine how they will fare in life. Dr T.P.Chia 

139 Your thoughts, beliefs and choices determine, to a large extent, your state of being happy or unhappy. Dr T.P.Chia 

140 True knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. Confucius 

141 Three others in the Cadillac were airlifted or taken by ambulance to hospitals; the extent of their injuries was not available.

142 The acid test of a good leader is the extent to which they select a style to suit the circumstances.

143 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius 

144 He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power.

145 To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered.

146 The striking thing about the first term is the extent to which the major accomplishments were political rather than substantive.

147 To some extent this has been ameliorated by providing cookers on each of the wings.

148 Will we not have to make a decision in advance of what the extent of the motorway's influence has been?

149 To a large extent, the election has been fought on the airwaves, with both candidates delivering television advertisements attacking each other.

150 My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation.

151 Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.

152 To some extent the answer is self-evident: State and national politics run along distinct and not always parallel tracks.

153 It was not easy, however, to show whether, and to what extent, these cells were activated.

154 The extent to which school-to-work can raise academic achievement is less clear.

155 Style pages cover Spitalfields stories regularly, to the extent that now only people with money can afford to live there.

156 There is sometimes overlap, but never to an extent that it becomes annoying.

157 I didn't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life.

158 The extent to which cells actually use such mechanisms is still being investigated.

159 Yet individually, advisers and advisory teachers earned considerable respect for the extent and quality of support they provided.

160 We have no reliable statistics on the extent of child abuse and neglect.

161 Somehow news correspondents covering the administration, including me, never grasped the full extent of the guerrilla war within the administration.

162 To what extent are these factors likely to be present in modern analytical laboratories?

163 But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.

164 The extent to which a person is annoyed by the perception of an odour varies.

165 Rabbits are not territorial creatures to the extent of evicting other rabbits moving into their home ground from further afield.

166 She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent, and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck.

167 The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine.

168 When Johnson was diagnosed, he ceased physical activity while doctors determined the extent of his illness.

169 The extent of the shift registered by these approaches becomes clear when compared with its antecedents.

170 On the other hand the accountancy profession has only contributed, to a limited extent, to improving commercial and professional accountability.

171 We are ... concerned about the extent of the misplaced adverse criticism social workers have received from the media and elsewhere.

172 The movie succeeds to a modest extent by taking full advantage of the romantic screen personas of its two stars.

173 A comparative analysis of course documents made the extent and systematic nature of the changes quite evident.

174 Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt 

175 It is estimated that approximately 500,000 adults in Great Britain suffer from agoraphobia to some extent.

176 Pedestrians under the influence of alcohol also feature but the true extent of this is not know.