• The Dollar Index is inversely correlated to the price of rice to such an extent that R2 is 0.98.

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  • In the 1990s, however, a series of claims that Mr. Andreotti had Mafia ties damaged his reputation to such an extent that it never recovered.

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  • Why have Japan and Germany slowed to such an extent that they are unable even to recapture the entrepreneurial glories of the 1950s and 1960s?

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  • Those request were so numerous that it flooded the link to Pakistan to such an extent that Pakistan was effectively knocked off the Internet as well.

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  • National City jumped enthusiastically into the mortgage business in the last decade, building its presence to such an extent that by 2004 mortgages made up half of its profits.

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  • The Scot had to do it the hard way, heavy rain hampering his qualifying rides to such an extent that he had started fifth on the grid.

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  • Monmouthshire council deputy leader Bob Greenland said most people accepted that market had "grown to such an extent that it cannot be contained on the restricted town site".

    BBC: Sheep pens at Abergavenny livestock market

  • The Canary Islands passed similar legislation in 1991, but only after the popularity of bullfighting had ebbed to such an extent that the rings stood virtually empty at weekends.

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  • The mere fact of making motorists pay their way would free capacity to such an extent that bus travel would become easier and faster, and subsidies could be reduced.

    ECONOMIST: Jam today, road pricing tomorrow

  • For those who have not, it is a condition of flight in which lift is reduced to such an extent that normal flight ceases and the aircraft becomes a brick.

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  • However his progress in the professional ranks had stalled to such an extent that he has only fought 15 times in six years and had been considering quitting the sport.

    BBC: Fry confident of causing an upset

  • Bankinter, a Spanish bank, developed data-mining techniques to such an extent that it has been able to set up a useful business as a private detective agency for suspicious spouses.

    ECONOMIST: The hollow promise of Internet banking

  • "He was a gigantic virtuoso, but one who threw caution to the winds to such an extent that the cause of drama and the intensity of the music itself were uppermost, " Harrell said.

    NPR: Master Cellist, Conductor Rostropovich Dies at 80

  • This individual doctor has galvanised the regional hospital to such an extent that last year they had the equivalent of 74 donors per million population, double the already high Spanish national level.

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  • Labour described the Plaid proposals as a "fantasy wish-list, centred on a 30% pension increase" which "ignored fiscal and political realities to such an extent that it made the speech almost meaningless".

    BBC: Plaid's 'living pension' promise

  • With the passage of centuries, though, the biblical scenes were gradually degraded by dampness, to such an extent that in 1888 church authorities hired the painter August Olbers to mend the damage.

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  • But the 25-year-old has overcome his disability to such an extent that he became the first double amputee to compete at the Olympics when running in South Africa's 4x400m relay team this summer.

    CNN: London 2012 delivers unexpected legacy

  • The MDC leader once told me that his strategy to unseat the president was to wait while Mr Mugabe mismanaged the economy to such an extent that he was forced out of office.

    BBC: Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai profiled

  • These appendages may be well intentioned, but their sheer weight is effectively killing the bridge with love, weakening its structure to such an extent that Paris City Hall is urging tourists to stop the practice.

    BBC: Paris to tourists: Stop locking down love

  • The art scene has picked up to such an extent that last March also witnessed the launch of the country's first art guide (appropriately titled "Saudi Art Guide"), available online and in app form.

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  • Like the Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike, Shultz strained to hold back those who believed that the economy had changed to such an extent that the free market no longer worked.

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  • His career looked over when scandal forced him to step down in 2006 but worse scandals thinned the leading ranks of the PT to such an extent that Mr Palocci managed to make himself indispensable again.

    ECONOMIST: The president tries to cut her losses

  • His mental health began to deteriorate to such an extent that, in November 1985, he was diagnosed as a psychopath, sectioned under the Mental Health Act and transferred from prison to a maximum security hospital.

    BBC: Ian Brady: A fight to die

  • Her appeal to the voters swung from record lows before the conflict to such an extent that she won the 1983 British general election with a massive majority and she remained in power until 1990.

    BBC: Fight for the Falklands: Twenty years on

  • But relations with the ANC worsened to such an extent that a row over new immigration regulations earlier this year ended with the bizarre spectacle of President Thabo Mbeki taking his home affairs minister to court.

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  • Though they are cute and cuddly, felines are actually finely tuned killers that affect wildlife to such an extent that the researchers have called on authorities to come up with ways to lessen their environmental impact.

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  • The independent care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) says snap inspections at NHS hospitals in England found one in five of them neglecting elderly patients to such an extent that they were breaking the law.

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  • This is done to such an extent that the next President may be hamstrung should he believe, unlike the incumbent, that the transfer of certain dual-use U.S. technology should be blocked from going to undesirable end-users.

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  • This observed hard work matters to such an extent that if you are trying to recruit the next potential chief executive officer of your company and are considering two A students, take the slightly less brainy one.

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  • "The feeling that things had got to such an extent that unless this was delivered, proposed, endorsed by the people, then the result would be that Labour would lose control over its heartlands and fiefdoms, " he said.

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