in a sense
in a certain sense
in one sense

In a very real sense, they were the work of one man.

In a very real sense, he had lost his best friend.

In a sense, I knew her very well after what we'd just been through together.

And in a sense, they are also the reason he decided to leave government service.

Because, in a very real sense, her answer did not matter to him.

In a sense we're back to the point we started from.

In a sense, I had given up on him at an early age.

In a sense, I had become my father after he died.

Iraq has in a sense been put on one side.

What used to be the end, in a certain sense, has become a part of the beginning.