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Example sentences for "lesser extent"

  • The fore wings are somewhat narrower and darker in colour than those of the Scarce Footman; and the hind wings are suffused, to a greater or lesser extent, with dark grey.

  • Hind wings whitish in the male, and suffused with blackish in the female, to a greater or lesser extent.

  • The blotch is clouded, to a greater or lesser extent, with pale brown, and the inner area of the wings is flecked with silvery grey; the cross lines are edged with reddish brown.

  • Similar alternation of ovarian activity was observed, to a greater or lesser extent, in nearly all of the females examined.

  • Shortening of the manus (and, to a lesser extent, the pes) has been accompanied by reduction and loss of interdigital webbing.

  • It is to Islám and, to a lesser extent, to Christianity that my theme is directly related.

  • Communism and the Eastern European (and, to a lesser extent, the Central European) versions of Socialism suffered from this inherent poisonous seed of deceit.

  • Most IFIs - notably the IMF and, to a lesser extent, the World Bank - are both politicised and doctrinaire.

  • Only Kosovars welcomed them as liberators from Serb serfdom (as did Albanians in Macedonia to a lesser extent).

  • Soft-shelled turtles inhabiting the Mississippi River and its tributaries in Louisiana and Mississippi certainly represent an intergrading population of spinifer and hartwegi, and, to a lesser extent, of asper.

  • It is notable that the occurrence of ater, and to a lesser extent that of T.

  • They are more vocal than most ducks--their high-pitched peeping and nasal quacking is commonly heard in spring and to a lesser extent in fall.

  • These birds winter most abundantly in coastal waters, including the Gulf of Mexico, and to a lesser extent, the Great Lakes.

  • A bird of the eastern States, primarily the Atlantic Flyway and, to a lesser extent, the Mississippi.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards became; away they; brave deeds; but perhaps; coming towards; excellent effect; finely situated; inch stroke; large band; large variety; legs short; lesser degree; lesser extent; lesser wing; lingua franca; little cloud; motion picture; other animal; regards them; short circuited; slightly arched; sometimes spoken; visiting card; when ripe