Sentence examples for extent was in from inspiring English sources

The last time girls outperformed boys to this extent was in 2003.

There is no provisional government in waiting as there purported to be – and to some extent was – in Libya.

The last time they slowed to this extent was in the mid-1990s, when there was greater appetite for bringing the rich low.

The last time the boundaries were redrawn to any great extent was in 1991, Mr. Craddick said, when the state was firmly in the hands of the Democratic opposition, as it had been for decades.

Here are extracts:Condemning the attitude of people who refused to buy a poppy because they felt it glorified war, Colonel Jimmy Hughes, chairman of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, said this week that it symbolised the tragic aftermath of war and to that extent was in reality a symbol of peace.

Value, to a certain extent, is in the eye of the user of the technology.

Corruption is widely described as a problem in the bank's $30 billion annual lending programs for poor countries, but the extent is in dispute.

This to some extent is in line with the literature-described mechanism of cell membrane disruption by glycoalkaloids.

South America's broadest extent is in the equatorial zone, so that tropical conditions prevail over more than half of the continent.

For one thing, Music Island, about one-quarter of an acre in extent, is in Prospect Park, rising along the southeastern shore of the lake.

Mapping drains is difficult and expensive and their spatial extent is, in many cases, unknown.