Example sentences of "to anything [prep] the extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | And most companies that deal in both military and civilian products admitted to Maddock that transfers between the two ‘ did not happen to anything like the extent that was desirable ’ . |
| 2 | But what is more important is that Gale 's book loses much of its impact because the science is not there to anything like the extent it needs to be to make the difficulties of Charles 's position clear . |
| 3 | Had we followed the advice of our so-called revolutionary counsellors , this substantial move toward a political revolution would not have taken place to anything like the extent shown by the figures . |
| 4 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 5 | The main difficulty is that neither system delivers the principal goods — lots of calls per channel — to anything like the extent that it should . |