7 sentences with 'extent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word extent and other words derived from it.
• « This nervous "message", to some extent tempered by the higher cortical centres, is then transmitted to the hypothalamus, whose hormone CRF (Corticotropin Release Factor) in turn stimulates the pituitary gland. »
• « Traces of infectious diseases and, to a lesser extent, traces of tumour diseases were found in almost all pre- and protohistoric skeletal remains. »
• « The extent to which secret chemical emissions from the former Soviet Union and other countries reach and affect the region has yet to be established. »
• « The extent of the pollution can be estimated by taking into account that, in one year alone, the consumption of naphtha in the US Antarctic campaigns amounted to 700,000 litres. They released, after combustion, 350 kilograms of lead. »
• « Despite the religious prohibition, it is clear that slavery was still present in the Persian Empire to some extent. »
• « It is difficult to know to what extent female seclusion was actually practised, since all the commentaries that mention it were written by elite men, almost all of whom supported the idea of female subjugation and the separation of the sexes in public. »