Sentence examples for extent things from inspiring English sources

To some extent, things have improved over the past couple of years.

MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ: But to a certain extent, things can only get so bad economically, for so long, before you start to see some social instability.

The truth is, nobody can know to what extent things might be different today if Bibi had acted differently over the past three years.

To some extent, these things are a matter of taste, political and otherwise.

I think the moment I realised the extent of things was at a party that his dealer attended.

"To the extent that things are changing in the economy it looks like they're changing in the wrong direction," he said.

That might have been the extent of things, but for his Curt Flood-like determination to test senior softball's free-agent system.

We could not guess that these students did not know Harris and Klebold - this was a school with 2,000 students - and were, to a large extent, repeating things they were themselves picking up from the television coverage.

And I think that to some extent, when things were going swimmingly well, which they were till a year ago, you are growing at 8 to 9 percent, sometimes at 10, why would you think that you need to do more?

A different kind of sensation attends the larger-scale, more self-consciously artificial action found in the "Transformer" movies and also, to a less fantastical extent, in things like "The A-Team" and "Knight and Day".

In young men we still reward, to some extent, the things that would have been essential for success in hunting and combat thousands of years ago: the willingness to take risks, fighting ability, speed and the ability to throw with velocity and accuracy.