The phrase "extent than expected" is not grammatically correct in written English.
A more appropriate way to phrase this would be "greater extent than expected." Example: The damage caused by the storm was of a greater extent than expected.
German business confidence continued to rise in July, albeit to a lesser extent than expected.
More than that, Romney did better than expected in Illinois because he ran up the score to a greater extent than expected in the Chicago area.
Indentation hardness generally increases upon material dehydration, however to a larger extent than expected from accompanying changes in indentation modulus, indicating that water acts as a 'plasticiser'plasticiser
The treatment dose of AlPcS2a was found to influence on the efficacy of PCI of saporin, but to a lesser extent than expected considering the data from cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking of Alexa488-dextran.
"Global competition in the steel industry is growing more intense, at a more rapid rate and to a greater extent than expected," Shoji Muneoka, representative director and president of Nippon Steel, said in a statement in February.
"Global competition in the steel industry is growing more intense, at a more rapid rate and to a greater extent than expected," Shoji Muneoka, representative director and president of Nippon Steel, said in a statement.
Such measurements revealed the cyclic nature of the process; specific amino acids acted as catalysts, stimulating respiration to an extent greater than expected from the quantities added.
3) These genes do not overlap, to extents greater than expected by chance, with genes listed in the Knowledgebase for Addiction Related Genes (KARG), a recent compilation of literature and database information concerning addiction related genes [49].
The rate of hydrolysis increased at higher pH and in the presence of divalent cation, but the extent was lower than expected based on similar data on RNA.
Steam injection, which is a technique used in the oil industry for extracting heavy oil53, demonstrates that heating can affect ground deformation to a much larger extent than that expected from pure thermal expansion.
The central bank said this month it may need to increase the cost of borrowing earlier and to a greater extent than previously expected to counteract stubbornly high inflation.
