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extensive

Extensive research, experience, damage, etc. is large in size, amount, or degree. There has been extensive research into ways to improve schools. She has extensive experience working with these computer systems. After the wild fires, the damage was extensive.

extensive

(= extended) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England extended farm lands surgeons with extended experience they suffered extensive damage (= across-the-board, all-embracing, blanket, broad, panoptic, wide) broad in scope or content across-the-board pay increases an all-embracing definition blanket sanctions against human-rights violators an invention with broad applications a panoptic study of Soviet nationality — T.G.Winner granted him wide powers of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor producing wheat under extensive conditions agriculture of the extensive type

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Those selected will have to face extensive medical and psychological tests.
The earthquake in Hokkaido caused extensive damage.
The strong earthquake in Hokkaido caused extensive damage.
Tom is a voracious reader, and has an extensive library at home.
The city library underwent extensive renovations and can now accommodate twice as many books as before.
Mary's question to Tom in German spurred him on to provide an extensive answer in German. He managed to do this very well, which everyone was happy about.
His extensive knowledge surprises me.
Stamina is the capacity to carry on a physical or mental activity for an extensive period of time without getting tired. You can increase your stamina by training, by maintaining a healthy lifestyle and by consuming a healthy and balanced diet.
Thank you for the detailed and extensive reply.
The fire caused extensive damage.
The list is extensive.

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After an extensive investigation I've traced the video to Jason's phone.
The abbey could be very attractive, but I should imagine. it would need quite extensive repairs.
In view of the extensive testimony, your continued silence. and on the recommendation of the doctors. the court considers it advisable, for your own safety. that you be committed to an institution. as prescribed by law.
The results of my extensive examinations establish beyond doubt. that the creature was brought to life originally. by an electrical impulse of terrifying potency.
To which you must add something more substantial in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
Mr. Huggins, your people have extensive holdings all over this territory.
Frequently, during her extensive travels she's been challenged by various marksmen to shoot in competition with her.
Fringe benefits include extensive travel. large wardrobe allowance. liberal retirement plan.
I have made an extensive study of birds in flight, and I.
Nobody could be as certain as you are, Mr Beauchamp. without extensive examination.
Then why don't you reserve judgement until you have made an extensive examination?
You know, we have a very extensive wardrobe here.
The grounds are very extensive, and I will not have anyone shouting.
Which I gather is quite extensive.
After some extensive research, I've discovered that there's a nanomachine embedded in this bug's belly.
The Abbey could be very attractive, but I should imagine it would need quite extensive repairs.
I have a library- a very extensive library- and I require someone to take care of it- someone familiar with books.
In view of the extensive testimony, your continued silence, and on the recommendation of the doctors, the court considers it advisable, for your own safety, that you be committed to an institution as prescribed by law.
The technical leader of the expedition was Edmund Geer, he was responsible for the organisation of the grand caravans, for delivering food to man and animal, and for the storage and transport of extensive samples.
That is a possible explanation, yet I adventure to say that the average petty thief has a more extensive knowledge of the value of the objet d'art than the average collector.
Extensive internal injuries, probably.
Well, I won't know until I run it through the computer, but it looks like the profiler that dips here like this for an extensive blind spot.
A clear case of deep and extensive maladjustment.
Extensive internal repairs will be required but my original basic directive has been reinstated.
I knew the police had searched the extensive caves a few miles from my farm very thoroughly.
Officer Szumibor submitted an extensive report, which will be consider by the judges while passing the verdict.
Extensive land in Switzerland.
Any woman in violation of regulations can be detained in a clinic as long as necessary for extensive testing.
There have been extensive demonstrations and experiments.
Last reports from Jupiter's automatic systems before all communication ceased. indicate that extensive damage may have been caused by premature activation. of the spaceship's environmental control robot.
Unless we get outside and make extensive repairs, well. we could be in worse trouble.
He has extensive experience in this, every now and then he has some part of his body stuck in the bowl.
He now faces a difficult phase mortgage due to his extensive property in faraway Asia Minor.
We have a very extensive library section for your amusement.
My security board has detected extensive use of computer, Mr. Spock.
He had much more extensive damage.
IpulledoutofthePhoenix, extensive damages of all systems.
Extensive traffic systems barren of traffic.

News and current affairs

Most obviously in need of amendment is the view that minimally managed and regulated markets are both more stable and more dynamic than those subject to extensive government intervention.
Earlier this year, the government suspended publication of the newspaper Bing Dian Weekly, provoking unprecedented open protest, which received extensive media coverage worldwide.
Thus, even without any change in the current system of regulation, extensive coverage of disasters, judicial abuses, and citizens' pursuit of their statutory rights, along with the questioning of policies from public perspectives, is now common.
The Panel will also take advantage of extensive online and offline efforts to engage with people worldwide and gain insight into the future that they envision.
Between 2001 and 2003, I was part of a team that undertook an extensive survey of values in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, and Jordan.
On the contrary, neither biotechnology nor genetic engineering are new, and consumers, government, and industry all have had long, extensive, and positive experience with both.
Now they know that universal secondary education and extensive university-level training is also needed.
In a ceremony celebrating the promulgation of the current 1982 constitution, Hu reportedly expressed interest in strengthening constitutional protections against official intrusions in people's lives and in promoting extensive legal reform.
Most people outside China do not fully appreciate the extent to which its leaders, by contrast, have engaged in extensive deliberations and broad consultations (even with foreigners) as they strive to solve the enormous problems they face.
There have also been extensive beatings and arbitrary detentions.
He then underwent extensive rehabilitation, gradually regaining strength and confidence.
There followed extensive restructuring, and those economies recovered fast.
But if the EU ever begins to offer China extensive exports of powerful and offensive weapons systems, the military power of the People's Liberation Army would be able to defeat Taiwan's defense forces.
Enormous effort was expended by them - something not fully understood by current EU members - to accomplish their domestic transformations and so adapt themselves to the incredibly extensive acquis of the Union.
Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.
And, unlike military personnel, CIA agents enjoy extensive immunity, undermining international legal standards.
This gave rise to the first causes of the crisis: the originate-and-distribute model of securitization and the extensive use of leverage.
One important point should be added: extensive public participation and transparency, in terms of both process and outcomes, will be key to successful management.
With few exceptions, gone are the days of dual exchange rates, hyperinflation, and extensive trade barriers.
The Bretton Woods conference succeeded not because it assembled every state, or because the participants engaged in an extensive powwow.
The UN Security Council has adopted a series of resolutions to impose extensive sanctions, following the North's three previous nuclear tests.

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