The phrase "affects to some extent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the influence or impact of something, indicating that the effect is not absolute but rather partial or limited.
Example: "The new policy affects to some extent the overall productivity of the team, but its impact varies among different departments."
Alternatives: "has some influence" or "impacts to a degree".
Any temperature fluctuation affects to some extent the precision of the measurements of retention times and bandwidths of eluted compounds.
It should be noted that the mesh size can also slightly change the loading evaluated inside the crack and consequently affects to some extent the accuracy of the predicted stress intensity factor.
This thus affects to some extent the representativeness of our results.
The MATN3 mutation is at a conserved residue (p.Val245) in the αF strand of the MATN3 A-domain and functional studies show p.Val245Met affects to some extent the trafficking and secretion of MATN3 A-domain [unpublished data].
A recent study has shown that the Polycomb-like 2 protein (PCL2/MTF2), a co-factor of PRC2 in ES cells and proliferative cells (Li et al. 2010; Walker et al. 2010) affects, to some extent, PRC2 recruitment or maintenance and the deposition of H3K27me3 to the Xi (Casanova et al. 2011) (Fig. 4).
Everyone was affected to some extent, including the team's captain, Charles Thompson.
The fracture strain was affected to some extent by both blend composition and processing conditions.
"Clearly, I think they were affected to some extent," he said.
The sheer weight of such a teary theme is bound to be affecting to some extent, even played on a banjo.
In addition to well-known strong effects of (4) and (5), all the variables affected to some extent the activity and selectivity for heptane isomerization.
Whether we like it or not, we are all affected to some extent, even if we are lucky enough to have the ability to brush it off and get on with our lives without feeling ugly or fat or insufficient.
