WordNet
adv. to a considerable degree; "he relied heavily on others' data" [syn: heavily]
Usage examples of "to a great extent".
The afternoons and evenings, though, were for the troops, and they'd been spending them, to a great extent, napping and soaking up the local culture.
He exhorted me to plant assiduously, as my father had done to a great extent.
Having now, to a great extent, given up ideal ambitions, he wished earnestly to direct his powers into a more practical channel, and thus correct the introspective tendencies which had never brought himself much happiness, or done his fellow-creatures any great good.
It is a long, low building with two benches in front, and the ivy has contrived to cover it to a great extent, mercifully masking most of a bombastic statement graven on its face beneath my name.
The majority of the Galaxy is still non-Foundation and, to a great extent, anti-Foundation.
Smell has its advantages: sight is (in a state of nature) dependent on the sun and is to a great extent useless at night, but smell is on day-and-night duty.
But CC was to a great extent helpless without its great battery of psi-mutes.
Whereas industrial technology had been driven, to a great extent, by advances in weaponry on Earth—.
Whereas industrial technology had been driven, to a great extent, by advances in weaponry on Earth -- and Althar, for that matter -- the development of machining on Marduk had been necessitated by something else entirely: water.
Whereas industrial technology had been driven, to a great extent, by advances in weaponry on Earthand Althar, for that matterthe development of machining on Marduk had been necessitated by something else entirely: water.