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Discover LudwigThe phrase "extra by" is not a grammatically correct phrase and cannot be used in written English.
It does not make sense and it is not a standard phrase in the English language. If you are trying to convey the meaning of something being additional or supplementary, you could use the phrases "in addition," "furthermore," or "moreover" instead. For example, "The company provided extra funding for the project."
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The Extra, by A. B. Yehoshua (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
He makes $90 a month, plus a little extra by driving a taxi.
Osborne also said councils would be able to access a "better care fund" supplying £1.5bn extra by 2020.
The UN estimates the cost (pdf) of adapting for developing countries at $67bn a year extra by 2030.
International law has been shunted aside as if it is an optional extra by EU initiatives over recent years.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Extra," by Yiyun Li, from a 2003 issue of the magazine.
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Make your every New Year extra special by making your yearly calendar extra creative.
You can make movie time extra special by serving a sweet treat (e.g., party popcorn).
Make each of her birthdays extra special, by taking trips, or by having amazing parties.
There are grand sets, camels and goats aplenty, extras by the hundreds.
So Oliver Stone will keep revising his films again and again ["Producing DVD's With Lavish Extras" by Peter M. Nichols, Aug. 27]?
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