to an extent

Somewhat; partly; in a limited way or to a limited degree. Your essay would be improved to an extent by tidying up your paragraphs, but your topic on the whole has some fundamental problems. Our administration is willing to negotiate to an extent, but we aren't ready to make any significant changes to the legislation.

词组	to an extent
释义	to an extent to an extent Somewhat; partly; in a limited way or to a limited degree. Your essay would be improved to an extent by tidying up your paragraphs, but your topic on the whole has some fundamental problems. Our administration is willing to negotiate to an extent, but we aren't ready to make any significant changes to the legislation. See also: extent Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: to some degree to some extent to...extent extent to a certain degree to a certain extent to a limited extent to a degree biological biological clock is ticking References in periodicals archive Examples include the Florida State Center for Library Automation and, to an extent, OhioLINK Many large multibranch public libraries also use systems of this type. Building the infrastructure of resource sharing: union catalogs, distributed search, and cross-database linkage
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