Sentence examples for extent is about from inspiring English sources

The country's maximum extent is about 280 miles (450 km) from north to south and 360 miles (580 km) from east to west.

The length of the E. coli chromosome, if removed from the cell and stretched to its fullest extent, is about 1.2 mm, which is striking in view of the fact that the length of the cell is about 0.001 mm.

The D region is that part of the ionosphere lying below the E region, and its lowest extent is about 50 km.

The spatial scale of the additional longitudinal eastward electric field is 3000 km, and the meridional extent is about 1000 km.

This modulatory effect can be suppressive (S-ERF) or facilitatory (F-ERF), and its extent is about three to five times larger in diameter than the CRF [3], [4], [17], [18], [19], [20].

It is our opinion that the epidemic, to a large extent, is about sexual drive.

More than film, more than television, more than the Internet itself, theater will always, at least to some extent, be about people risking ridiculous odds in the hope of sharing their passions with an inexorably small number of like-minded souls.

According to data from September 18, Arctic sea ice extent was about 1.97 million square miles, which is well above the level observed on the same date last year, yet still well below the 1981-2010 accordingaccording to the National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDCC) in Boulder, Colo.

This is to a great extent what flexitarianism is about, after all.

To a great extent, that's what investing is about, certainly in these times.

Globally, the minimum and maximum sea ice extents are about 10 million square km and 28 million square km, respectively.