The phrase "explain to some extent" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that you are going to give a brief explanation of something. For example, "I will explain to some extent why this project has been delayed."
"This may explain to some extent why there may be an under-reporting of racism, with many people declining to lodge complaints when they experience racial discrimination or vilification".
Since EE is closer to the mid-position, this might explain to some extent the difference between EI-AC and EE-AC [19].
Our observations may support and explain to some extent the poor in vitro biological activity generally demonstrated by the series of 6-substituted-5-fluorouridine phosphoramidates (ProTides) and will be of guidance for the design of novel phosphoramidate prodrugs.
The reduction of NO by NH3 over CaSO4 (which is the product of the reaction between SO2, O2 and limestone) was found to be important because this reaction can, according to the model, explain to some extent the change in selectivity with increased solid conversion observed experimentally.
Co-expression modules and signatures are supposed to explain to some extent the functional differences between the phenotypes or experimental conditions compared.
Second, while the acoustic environment could explain to some extent the differences observed between WC and MT females, it cannot explain the differences observed in males.
Obama's advantage in the state can be explained, to some extent, by idiosyncratic local factors.
The selloff can be explained to some extent as a market correction and part of a wider flight from risk.
The effusiveness of the reception explains, to some extent, the violence of the reactions when such memoirs are revealed as phonies: beneath it lies, all too clearly, a kind of shame — shame at the ease with which we have been seduced, and at how naked our desire is for certain kinds of narrative, however improbable or tendentious or convenient, to be true.
This explains, to some extent, why Sen. Levin and the Goldman executives were talking past each other throughout the Senate hearings.
Social disparity with regard to lower and upper secondary educational attainment can be explained to some extent within a structural individualistic theoretical framework (Boudon 1974; Becker 2003; Stocké 2010; Kroneberg and Kalter 2012).
