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The phrase "a surprising extent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level or degree of something that is unexpected or astonishing.
Example: "The project was successful to a surprising extent, exceeding all our initial expectations."
Alternatives: "an unexpected degree" or "a remarkable level".
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These customs persist to a surprising extent.
Anthropology and fiction, they overlap to a surprising extent.
To a surprising extent, one can glimpse a culture by studying a brain.
But to a surprising extent, it was simply a response to John Edwards.
The latter is required because the play is, to a surprising extent, a religious light comedy.
Instead, our behavior is determined to a surprising extent by the situation.
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It wants to be fun and, to a perhaps surprising extent, it is.
To a growing and surprising extent, this is also how the entry level looks at the most prestigious management consulting firms, ones that count the world's biggest companies among their clients and that have long been dominated by M.B.A.'s.
They succeeded to a great if not entirely surprising extent, and quickly.
We then show that proteins from different bacterial species also differ to an even larger and very surprising extent, but that functional classifiers nonetheless generalize successfully across species boundaries.
The evidence that is proffered in support of the view that attention is strictly necessary for consciousness comes from a range of experiments showing the surprising extent to which subjects are ignorant of the items to which they have paid no attention.
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