"differs to a large extent" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to emphasize the degree to which two things are different. For example: "The quality of the food at this restaurant differs to a large extent from the food at the other branch."
However, the kinetics of resting light intensity FRLI (Figure 2C) often differs to a large extent from that of ΔFepileptiform (Figure 2B).
In regulation microarrays the sequence content of the input DNA sample and the experimental DNA sample always differs to a large extent.
In contrast to the observed agreement as far as a common standard approach for regional anaesthesia techniques is concerned, the choice of the local anaesthetics, concentrations of local anaesthetics used and/or adjuvants differs to a large extent in the university departments included in this survey.
Because many of the phenotypic trait values showed a distribution highly correlated to the underlying population structure it was expected that the number of significantly associated markers would differ to a large extent between different metabolites and between analysis methods, as shown in Table 1.
Because the coils are complex systems the internal voltage distribution can differ to a large extent from the ideal linear voltage distribution.
Furthermore, the same study showed that day - night modulated transcripts differ to a large extent according to berry stage.
In these cases, the experimental DNA samples may differ to a large extent between treatment and control groups, warranting application of normalization to each condition separately.
In regulation studies however, this assumption does not hold since the samples comprising the two channels differ to a large extent.
In so far the effects of WBV in standing posture differ to a large extent from the stereotypic time courses of WBV effects in completely unloaded muscles in our study.
Genetic analysis of 44 African American patients revealed that ABCA4 mutations in patients of this ethnic background differ to a large extent from patients with ABCA4-associated diseases of European descent.
This may be due to the fact that the methodology used has enough resolution to detect relationships between species because they differ to a large extent in sperm size, but is insufficient to detect them at the intraspecific level given the small magnitude of differences and the large degree of variation within species and within males.
