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to that extent

adv. to the degree or extent; "insofar as it can be ascertained, the horse lung is comparable to that of man" [syn: insofar, in so far, to that degree]

Usage examples of "to that extent".

He cannot have lost his sense of process to that extent, so that he envisages only the deaths and not the dying.

In time I came to know that Union colonel whose coming frightened me out of the war and crippled the Southern cause to that extent--General Grant.

To the extent that a man is guided b his rational judgment, he acts in accordance with the require ments of his nature and, to that extent succeeds in achievin, a human form of survival and well-being.

I believe they thought him worthy of so great honor, because in his part of the kingdom (for their father had divided his territories between them, in which they reigned daring his life) he had founded chapels for the worship of the gods, and had taught them to measure time, by months and years, and to that extent to keep count and reckoning of events.