"extent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To an alarming extent, poverty has not only persisted but increased as the South's prospects have improved.
- Though remarkably free from bitterness, the sergeant had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent, even allowing for his love of literature.
- It did not take more than a few moments before our previously snail-like pace had increased to an alarming extent.
- Over the course of a generation, those who work with words have become controlled to an alarming extent by large corporate interests.
- At a public function, Mountbatten wrote, "his nervousness increased to such an alarming extent, that I came very close to support him in case he passed out."
- There isn't as much to be made in the consumer bankruptcies, the Chapter 7's and 13's, but the filings have increased to an alarming extent.
- These new reinforcements arrived only just before a resumption of activities which were swiftly to thin their ranks to an alarming extent.
- In 1901, the Atlanta Constitution reported that "Use of the drug [cocaine] among negroes is growing to an alarming extent."
- Such an alarming extent did the blockade threaten to take, that even our minister to France, Mr. Armstrong, began to be nervous.
- Structural Funds payments have piled up to an alarming extent.
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