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单词 degree
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degree
(dɪgr )
Word forms: degrees
1. countable noun B2
You use degree to indicate the extent to which something happens or is the case, or the amount which something is felt.
These man-made barriers will ensure a very high degree of protection. [+ of]
Politicians have used television with varying degrees of success. [+ of]
a degree of phrase
If something has a degree of a particular quality, it has a small but significant amount of that quality.
Their wages do, however, allow them a degree of independence.
A degree of cautious optimism is justified.
2. uncountable noun [of/in N]
You use degree in expressions such as a matter of degree and different in degree to indicate that you are talking about the comparative quantity, scale, or extent of something, rather than other factors.
The first change is a matter of degree, the second is a fundamental shift.
The jobs are different in degree of difficulty.
3. countable noun A2
A degree is a unit of measurement that is used to measure temperatures. It is often written as °, for example 23°.
It's over 80 degrees outside.
Pure water sometimes does not freeze until it reaches minus 40 degrees Celsius.
4. countable noun
A degree is a unit of measurement that is used to measure angles, and also longitude and latitude. It is often written as °, for example 23°.
It was pointing outward at an angle of 45 degrees.
...McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which is at 78 degrees South.
5. countable noun B1
A degree at a university or college is a course of study that you take there, or the qualification that you get when you have passed the course.
He took a master's degree in economics at Yale.
...an engineering degree.
...the first year of a degree course.
6.  See also first-degree, second-degree, third-degree
7. by degrees phrase
If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
The crowd in Robinson's Coffee-House was thinning, but only by degrees.
Synonyms: little by little, slowly, gradually, moderately  
8. to some/a certain degree (etc) phrase
You use expressions such as to some degree, to a large degree, or to a certain degree in order to indicate that something is partly true, but not entirely true. [vagueness]
These statements are, to some degree, all correct.
9. to what/that degree/the degree that(etc) phrase
You use expressions such as to what degree and to the degree that when you are discussing how true a statement is, or in what ways it is true. [vagueness]
To what degree would you say you had control over things that went on?
He believes in himself to such a degree that he abuses his friends.
10. to the nth degree phrase [PHRASE after verb, noun PHRASE]
If something is done to the nth degree, it is done to an extreme degree. [emphasis]
Ned and I discussed everything to the nth degree.
You're a risk-taker to the nth degree.
Idioms:
give someone the third degree [informal]
to ask someone a lot of questions in an aggressive way in order to find out information
Apply for a loan now and you will be given the third degree.
Collocations:
certain degree
This emphasis on music gives me a certain degree of licence in the play.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They require a certain degree of cultural literacy, or general knowledge.
Steinberg, Laurence & Levine, Ann You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20 (1990)
Conflict resolution requires forces capable of armed intervention, which provide a certain degree of deterrence.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
college degree
I was also the first woman in my family to earn a college degree.
Christianity Today (2000)
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
Christianity Today (2000)
Many prisons offer the opportunity for prisoners to complete their high school or college degree while in jail.
Sociology (1995)
degree holder
An unnamed honorary degree holder said that the 'quite serious' claims 'may have a reputational impact' on the university.
Times, Sunday Times
Officials were appointed from the literati degree holder, otherwise known as 2% of the population.
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A post graduate degree holder in history.
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As with many degrees, the reputation and ranking of a program may factor into the desirability of a degree holder for either employment or graduate admission.
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Among them 22 are senior-titled. 90% of the teachers are doctorate, master degree holders.
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degree of flexibility
Almost 5.5 million people work with some degree of flexibility by choice, many of them in wellpaid professional or managerial roles.
Times, Sunday Times
Presumably, that was to ensure that the rule had a degree of flexibility and was not used to create injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
However, his goal comes with a degree of flexibility.
ST
About a quarter currently have some degree of flexibility over their working hours, and 37 per cent said they wanted 'complete flexibility'.
Times, Sunday Times
The latest revisions will soften penalties for minor breaches and introduce a welcome degree of flexibility in the stewards' room.
Times, Sunday Times
degree of heat
This results in a greater degree of heat stress for the taller man as his body core temperature rises.
Times, Sunday Times
The degree of heat and depth of penetration depend in part on the absorptive and resistance properties of the tissues that the waves encounter.
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After a while, he defined the zeroth degree of heat as melting snow and 33 degrees of heat as boiling water.
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Over a hundred matches were held in all the locations in varying degrees of heat and weather conditions.
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degree of latitude
They must also cope with bowlers who are allowed a degree of latitude in straightening their arms.
Times, Sunday Times
It found a sensible way out, bringing in a playing regulation that allowed for a degree of latitude in the straightening of the arm.
Times, Sunday Times
For if a text cannot be replicated exactly in another language, then the translator must be accorded some degree of latitude.
The Times Literary Supplement
This morning they were to be flown a further 500 miles and dropped in the emptiness near the southern hemisphere's 88th degree of latitude where their walk begins.
Times, Sunday Times
An allowance provides the recipient with a wide degree of latitude about the costs he or she chooses to defray with it.
Times, Sunday Times
degree of precision
Central banks cannot predict the future with any degree of precision, as we have seen in recent years.
Times, Sunday Times
The word 'brilliance' doesn't do it justice; here was a degree of precision and bright colouration beyond mortal ken.
Times, Sunday Times
Machinery becomes an extension of a skilled operator, allowing them to achieve a high degree of precision and repeatability.
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Aviation uses what specialists call a 'limited register' of language - relatively few words to communicate with the necessary degree of precision.
Times, Sunday Times
Some aspects of theatre history might have been tackled with a similar degree of precision.
The Times Literary Supplement
degree of satisfaction
This isn't strictly a crumble, but it delivers a similar degree of satisfaction.
Times, Sunday Times
This allows the individual in question to hoist themselves by their own petard, while you watch with a certain degree of satisfaction.
Times, Sunday Times
The crash in prices prompted a certain degree of satisfaction in some quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
Each body can look back on its first decade with a degree of satisfaction.
Times, Sunday Times
I get a certain degree of satisfaction from watching her response to eating something she likes.
Globe and Mail
degree of separation
This self-defeating incompetence perfectly illustrates why there needs to be a degree of separation between the political and industrial halves of the labour movement.
Times, Sunday Times
There should be a degree of separation in daily habits.
Times, Sunday Times
Up until the mid-1950s, there was a degree of separation between illustrated educational books and illustrated picture books.
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They concluded that there aren't six degrees of separation - there are seven.
Times, Sunday Times
So let's begin with the theory of six degrees of separation.
Times, Sunday Times
degree of stability
The result had been 'a remarkable degree of stability' and a pluralist democracy based on the rule of law and freedom of speech.
Times, Sunday Times
But a degree of stability has been installed at the club and more sensible transfer policies established.
Times, Sunday Times
This provides some degree of stability and a potentially good source of dividends, which can be reinvested for growth.
Times, Sunday Times
This gives a degree of stability, if less visibility of forward revenues.
Times, Sunday Times
This allows a degree of stability; financial products are growing well, online travel rather less so, and utility bills are flavour of the month.
Times, Sunday Times
degree of success
I used the only impersonation that I can carry off with any degree of success.
James Birrell THE MANANA MAN (2002)
His contemporaries have all taken on the role with a reasonable degree of success.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Working on them with any degree of success is bound to improve your self-image.
Kiam, Victor Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur (1986)
degree of uncertainty
Experts said that while family history was a useful indicator of risk, there remained a degree of uncertainty.
Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise, it was a by-the-numbers response by an apathetic market to a moderate degree of uncertainty.
Times, Sunday Times
He added that the economy was seeing steady growth with low inflation, but that a degree of uncertainty threatened the favorable outlook.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet this same act suggested a degree of uncertainty that the official found surprising.
Times, Sunday Times
Such a wide range highlights the degree of uncertainty.
Times, Sunday Times
degrees Celsius
Set the temperature in degrees Celsius and it'll do the rest.
The Sun (2015)
Temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius in the cockpit.
The Sun (2011)
The experts hope a deal can be agreed to limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius.
The Sun (2009)
degrees centigrade
Turn the room thermostat down by one degree centigrade to save up to £30 a year.
The Sun (2012)
60 degrees centigrade is temperature at which the product is pasteurised for ten hours.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Among the pledges was the statement that the globe should not heat up by more than two degrees centigrade.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
degrees Fahrenheit
Do not spray plants when the temperature drops below 52 degrees Fahrenheit .
Secrets of the Soil (1990)
The temperature rose to 150 degrees Fahrenheit .
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy (2007)
At night the temperature rarely dipped below 95 degrees Fahrenheit .
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy (2007)
doctoral degree
Take the average educational background of today's pastor, for example: 80 percent have earned a bachelor's degree, 55 percent a master's degree, and 10 percent a doctoral degree.
Christianity Today
This action was taken with the concurrence of the personnel committee after it learned that the representation on his resume that [the plaintiff] had completed his [doctoral degree] was inaccurate.
Christianity Today
He earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a doctoral degree in finance.
Times, Sunday Times
After completion of doctoral degree requirements, students move to the clinical year of medical school.
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Close to 20% of the faculty were trained overseas with a doctoral degree.
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doctorate degree
During his career he guided over 100 students to their doctorate degree and almost as many to their masters.
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The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degree programs in engineering disciplines to nearly 8000 students.
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There exists also a direct track to a doctorate degree for graduate students, which lasts four to five years.
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Despite his successful defense of his thesis, he did not receive his diploma until 2008 when he was also awarded an honorary doctorate degree.
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During that period he was awarded his first patent and received a doctorate degree.
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earn a degree
At the end of the three-year programme, students will earn a degree in either 'distribution' or 'retail operations'.
Times, Sunday Times
He was there to earn a degree in forestry engineering, but being around all that lumber, hockey was never far from his mind.
Globe and Mail
For some undergraduates, knuckling down for three years to earn a degree can prove difficult enough.
Times, Sunday Times
Students may earn the degree in high or low residency.
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To earn a degree in secondary education, teachers must have a certain number of university credits in their subject field.
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economics degree
He was in the second year of his economics degree in the capital.
Times, Sunday Times
After taking time out to complete a fouryear economics degree, he joined the professional darts circuit this year.
Times, Sunday Times
He later persuaded the university there to put together a new mineral economics degree.
Times, Sunday Times
Once he'd secured an economics degree, he moved back to his home town and put everything into his dream.
Times, Sunday Times
Welcome to the future, where the lawyers and accountants stand to get rich and the fans spend even more time wishing they had an economics degree.
Times, Sunday Times
education degree
Only a decent higher education degree and a good job offer will provide opportunity for an urban hukou.
The Times Literary Supplement
After 13 years in the trade he returned to study an education degree, followed by a master's degree in education management.
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There are approximately 500 degree students in the ten adult education degree programmes.
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He received a tertiary education degree in history in 1989.
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Additionally, employers felt that an employee receiving a distance education degree compared favorably, in terms of knowledge learned, to someone with a resident degree.
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engineering degree
Students will pay no tuition fees, earn a salary of £18,000 and end up with an engineering degree apprenticeship after four years.
Times,Sunday Times
She registered for a new engineering degree and took a job in a university engineering lab.
Times, Sunday Times
She won gold at the 1986 world championships while studying for an engineering degree.
Times, Sunday Times
Many of their top positions in government and business are held by people with an engineering degree.
The Sun
The degree equivalent diploma in technology that it established had lower status than an engineering degree, as did technology degrees.
Times, Sunday Times
fair degree
The thing about writing this column is that it requires a fair degree of optimism about the weather.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Anyone asking for money in this environment will be getting a fair degree of scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Yes, there was a fair degree of animosity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
finish a degree
Those who do not finish a degree should not be disparaged as 'wastage'.
Times, Sunday Times
Flush with cash, he returned to finish his degree and then decided to give his online translation idea another go.
Times, Sunday Times
He spent the next six years playing squash professionally, taking part in tournaments around the world and never went back to finish his degree.
Times, Sunday Times
This autumn she's back at university, though with two radio documentaries coming up, she's 'terrified' she'll never finish her degree.
Times, Sunday Times
I could be here for ten years trying to finish this degree.
Times, Sunday Times
foundation degree
Foundation degrees, aimed at this sector, are designed by universities in liaison with employers.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And if you have the right commitment and ability, there are opportunities to study a foundation degree.
The Sun (2010)
The accent is on vocational education and there is also a strong portfolio of foundation degrees.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
gain a degree
Students have the option of undertaking a third year at the university to gain an honours degree.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
His gained his first degree, in industrial engineering, in 1999 at the height of the first dot-com boom.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She did well at school and gained a good degree.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
graduate degree
It drops further to 40 percent of those with a bachelor's degree and 29 percent of those with a graduate degree.
Christianity Today
Did you know, for instance, that 70 percent of our readers have a graduate degree, and that since 1982 our readers' median age has remained 39 years old?
Christianity Today
The five new graduate degree programmes are two years long and offer high-level scientific training for graduates wanting to lead tech companies.
Times, Sunday Times
Five new graduate degree programmes are starting this academic year and an undergraduate degree will begin next autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
As [a registered nurse] with a graduate degree in my field and 16 years of experience, my input was repeatedly ignored or minimized.
Globe and Mail
grant a degree
Not all universities, however, grant this degree.
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He was promptly granted a degree.
Times, Sunday Times
Parliament allowed it to grant degrees in 1659.
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The school was given the authority to grant degrees and the first commencement was held in the spring of 1890.
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Some doctoral robes will also be in the colors of the university which granted the degree.
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great degree
Fundraising, as we all know, depends to a great degree on emotion.
canada.com (2012)
Over the past 18 months, he has come a long way and has shown a great degree of maturity on and off the field.
Times, Sunday Times (2019)
To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation.
Times, Sunday Times (2019)
high degree of
It also led to a high degree of liberalism: a powerful state church was the means to a society free of religious and political extremism.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The best budgetary policy is one with a high degree of stability and a clear sense of direction.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The manoeuvre carries the highest degree of difficulty.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These groups require a high degree of readiness and motivation.
Herman, Judith Lewis Trauma and Recovery (1992)
This allows it to claim a high degree of objective verification.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
honorary degree
He received dozens of honorary degrees and awards.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Today she will receive an honorary degree from Oxford University.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He was a brave man and it gave us pleasure a few years ago to confer an honorary degree upon him.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
large degree
And to a large degree those preconceptions were met.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
To a large degree, this has been effective.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
To a large degree, he was able to make such progress with these groups because of the economy.
Christianity Today (2000)
law degree
There's a lot to be said for a good general law degree that gives as good an education as history or economics.
Times, Sunday Times
At a time when the legal market was radically changing 'the qualifying law degree no longer prepared students for a career in the law'.
Times, Sunday Times
The law degree prepares its graduates for multifarious walks of life.
Times, Sunday Times
But she was keen to work towards her law degree in a more career-orientated, businesslike atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
He began writing website reviews after graduating with a law degree in 1999.
The Sun
measure the degree of
A miniindustry of board evaluation consultants has grown up to try to measure the degree of challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
From such a table we can measure the degree of dependence between any two phenomena.
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Many visual search paradigms have used eye movements as a means to measure the degree of attention given to stimuli.
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Both groups are then asked to use their shoes for a period of time, and then measure the degree of wear of the soles.
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Population geneticists have used that idea to measure the degree of structure in a population.
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moderate degree
Otherwise, it was a by-the-numbers response by an apathetic market to a moderate degree of uncertainty.
Times, Sunday Times
Like most effective propaganda, it displayed a moderate degree of technical innovation, using methods that gave it immediacy with an audience not used to them.
The Times Literary Supplement
All of this requires plenty of time and a moderate degree of physical effort, which has opened up a market for professional pokemon trainers.
Times, Sunday Times
Planet was defined at the time as: a celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity.
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They were initially a disappointment; their moderate degree of superheating often left them short of steam.
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obtain a degree
For instance, it was not uncommon to have a rule which said you could not obtain a degree higher than a class higher than your worst mark.
Times, Sunday Times
In return for the gift, the college gave him a scholarship to attend the college enabling him to obtain a degree in philosophy.
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The original course of study to obtain a degree consisted of just two years, rather than the modern standard of three.
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Though he planned to obtain a degree in teaching, a physician-uncle suggested that medicine might offer more involving experiences for an aspiring writer.
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However, difficulties were encountered in attempts to obtain the degree.
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philosophy degree
The philosophy degree has come in handy, teaching her to pull things apart rationally and logically.
Times, Sunday Times
He says that he always wanted to be a film-maker but that, after a philosophy degree, he drifted into theatre because movies seemed too glamorous and fanciful.
Times, Sunday Times
The newly graduated student joins the real world with his philosophy degree and ends up becoming a shepherd.
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That same year he earned his philosophy degree, and in 1791 received his medical doctorate.
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Philosophy degrees produce highly employable, intellectually versatile graduates.
Times, Sunday Times
possess a degree
Some possess a degree in acoustics, while others enter the discipline via studies in fields such as physics or engineering.
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To be eligible for taking the patent bar exam, a candidate must possess a degree in engineering or physical science or the equivalent of such a degree.
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She concludes that it, and others, appear to be electrically powered by natural internal batteries (much like terrestrial electric eels) and possess some degree of intelligence.
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He possesses some degree of superhuman strength and endurance, primarily concentrated in his lower torso and legs, which grants him his superior leaping abilities.
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Bloodstone also possesses some degree of telekinesis, the limits of which aren't known.
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postgraduate degree
One of the requirements of the job was to have a postgraduate degree.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She will now begin a postgraduate degree in anthropology.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The usual starting point is a postgraduate degree in international human rights and humanitarian law.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
psychology degree
Wondering what mood 'order' might be instead, she did a psychology degree and started tracking her moods, a cognitive technique that psychologists use.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a psychology degree and had tried law, but both were a disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
It seems that the 48 squillion pounds in fees and living expenses for her psychology degree was worth it after all.
The Sun
The psychology degree drop-out clearly needed assistance in his least favourite subject.
Times, Sunday Times
Will her inability to take her preferred subjects preclude her from taking a psychology degree?
Times, Sunday Times
pursue a degree
Despite his obvious musical talent, he decided to pursue a degree in law.
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He later chose to pursue a degree in law school.
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Some university students are interested in flight training, but would prefer to pursue a degree in another field.
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He ultimately decided to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine instead, feeling that he would forever berate himself if he didn't.
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While he read the classics and liberal philosophers of the eighteenth century, he did not pursue a degree.
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reasonable degree
It becomes less important as relationships go on, but there has to be a reasonable degree of physical attraction.
The Sun
Most of politics and most political coverage proceeds as if there was still a reasonable degree of trust.
Times, Sunday Times
In meteorology, chaos theory implies that it may be fundamentally impossible to forecast weather for more than two or three weeks with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
Only once a company has demonstrated its resilience to the extremes of the market cycle can its future potential be assessed with any reasonable degree of confidence.
ST
The governing body only states shin guards must be 'covered entirely by the stockings, made of rubber, plastic or a similar suitable material and provide a reasonable degree of protection'.
The Sun
receive a degree
I do not know who went up to receive the degree but it was not me.
Times, Sunday Times
He graduated in 1992, as a member of the university's first class to receive that degree.
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He went to pharmacy school but did not receive a degree.
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They would be the only students to ever receive a degree from the institution.
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However, he never did actually attend the university or receive a degree.
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remarkable degree
Indeed, the growth in employment has come about, to a remarkable degree, by a growth in the ranks of the self-employed.
Times, Sunday Times
The result had been 'a remarkable degree of stability' and a pluralist democracy based on the rule of law and freedom of speech.
Times, Sunday Times
They reconciled law and justice (or 'cricketing common sense', as they put it) to a remarkable degree.
The Times Literary Supplement
Within the restrictions imposed on them, the four actors manage a remarkable degree of variety.
Times, Sunday Times
Using robotic submersibles, the operation required a remarkable degree of accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
require a degree
A fire evacuation plan that doesn't require a degree in graphic design to understand.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
All those things require a degree of flexibility and pragmatism that didn't use to exist.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
From the 2013-14 academic year all new applicants will require a degree in nursing but not an honours degree.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
second-class degree
Between 1986 and 1989 he studied civil engineering at Brighton Polytechnic, earning a second-class degree.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He obtained only a second-class degree but became president of both the Union and the Liberal club.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We have far too many graduates with second-class degrees and no practical abilities whatsoever.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
substantial degree
Equities will almost certainly outperform cash over the next decade, probably by a substantial degree.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a substantial degree of overlap between the two skeleton arguments.
Times, Sunday Times
The steepness of the terrain has also limited logging to a substantial degree.
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To a substantial degree, the economic restrictions remained in place or were even sometimes extended in the early second half of the 20th century.
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To a substantial degree, the two works form a single whole, a two-part play.
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surprising degree
Such a small injury, yet it affected my life to a surprising degree.
The Sun
The results show a surprising degree of similarity.
Times, Sunday Times
They have built up over the years a surprising degree of support, not least among opinion-formers.
Times, Sunday Times
The public, which backs the lockdown to a surprising degree, needs to fully grasp what's at stake.
The Sun
In spite of the strains on high, the diplomatic world, the military, the cosmopolitan, the purely decorative and the intellectual interwove to a surprising degree, and lasting friendships were formed.
The Times Literary Supplement
to a lesser degree
So they are playing it safe and moving sterling into dollars and, to a lesser degree, euros.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Batting and, to a lesser degree, bowling are tackled together.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Some patients appeared to react to commercial food in the winter, but to a much lesser degree in the warmer months.
An Alternative Approach to Allergies (1990)
undergraduate degree
After taking his undergraduate degree he stayed on to undertake research into peptides.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
His childhood passion for computer games and science fiction led to an undergraduate degree in computer science.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Other courses facing the axe include undergraduate degrees in foreign languages.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
unprecedented degree
More than 33 million people voted and their votes have changed our national history to an unprecedented degree.
Times, Sunday Times
Photographs in newspapers invested modern life with visual information to an unprecedented degree.
Times, Sunday Times
Let's just say that this convention-defying discipline narrows to an unprecedented degree the gap between swimming and a fight in a wet car park.
Times, Sunday Times
Critics were, for the most part, fairly kind, although some discerned an unprecedented degree of woolly-thinking whimsicality for a writer usually so acute and precise.
Times, Sunday Times
The council convened an emergency review, acknowledging in it 'an unprecedented degree of concern about reception classes... this problem had not been predicted'.
Times, Sunday Times
various degrees
Remember, there are various degrees of working part-time, so you have to decide what time off you want to ask for.
The Sun
It could be exciting and fast moving, it could be ironic or comic to various degrees, or it could be slow, wistful, nostalgic, sad.
Times,Sunday Times
The 'red' phenomenon has induced various degrees of zealotry.
Times, Sunday Times
On the outside of the spider's web and, with various degrees of reluctance wanting to expose it, are a splendidly unfantastic four.
Times, Sunday Times
The others, who were given various degrees of reprimand including final warnings, had sent the material to colleagues within the building.
Times, Sunday Times
varying degrees
One in 10,000 children could have varying degrees of the condition.
The Sun (2015)
Turning dreams into reality is something all entrepreneurs attempt to do with varying degrees of success.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The changes will impact schools' results to varying degrees.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
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