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553 examples of Extensive in a sentence

He goes into extensive detail ensuring that when he strikes, the killings go off as planned.
Part of the DVD series "The Work of Director ________", a trio of DVDs featuring the work of three groundbreaking video and short film directors, "The Work of Michel Gondry" is an extensive filmography of the director's work prior to his acclaimed feature film debut "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
Thinking that old Bollywood movies are filled with too much dialogue and/or extensive action sequences, I wasn't too thrilled watching this movie.
Okay, if this contains any spoilers at all they won't be too extensive since I have to admit that I could only stomach just over 30 minutes of this dross.
the majority of this movie consisted of "small talk" between two seemingly unexperienced actors with what appeared to be an extensive amount of extremely bad "Ad Lib".
The actors are awful (even Dylan Walsh), the script is written by primary school students, the action scenes and visual effects are laughable (with extensive use of stock footages) and yes, the story.
I have a friend that has an extensive collection of bad "B" movies in his collection and lent me this and a few others to watch while a was recovering from the flu.
Brian (Donovan Leitch) has just been released from a mental institution where he had extensive electroshock therapy.
How plausible is it that one of the male characters would have extensive knowledge of the title character's history and that he would then, conveniently, release this information as needed?
A group of teenage friends venture into rural Ireland during mushroom season with plans no more extensive than "tripping out".
They will have to brace themselves for an extensive period of diminished expectations that will last much longer than the next economic boom, and that will require substantial structural changes in the US economy.
In addition to holding anywhere from two to six games – potentially over the course of a number of weeks – World Cup host cities are expected to throw a “fan fest,” furnish training facilities for the teams, and provide extensive tax exemptions for a range of activities.
Extensive research – from the work of Adam Smith to Robert Solow and Gary Becker and, most recently, Eric Hanushek – confirms the importance of learning in building productive human capital.
For example, Metaweb/Freebase has an extensive structured database of movies, actors who appear in them, and their directors.
One particularly noteworthy initiative is the Enhanced Integrated Framework for least-developed countries, which encompasses extensive engagement and coordination among partner agencies, including the IMF, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank, and the WTO.
Germany’s extensive welfare system spends 31% of the country’s GDP for entitlement programs operated by the government sector.
With the German government keeping inflation in check through extensive price and wage controls, there was much talk about an economic miracle.
While there will be some of that, there is likely also to be, for the first time, extensive discussion about Europe’s future and policies, especially in areas like migration, defense and security, energy and climate, and relations with major powers like the United States and Russia.
Indeed, few local leaders reported what they were doing, one reason why few people are aware of how extensive this effort at SOE reform has been.
To be effective, elections must be preceded by an extensive period of debate and argument.
So extensive is this process that it sometimes appears as a “legislative tornado.”
The most extensive transplants of law took place when Europe’s empires spanned the globe.
These include the titanic $55 billion South-North Water Transfer Project, a massive engineering effort to construct three canals to bring water from China’s normally wet south to its arid north; a widespread campaign to dig ever-deeper wells; a nationwide tree-planting campaign; and even an extensive effort at “weather modification.”
In the extensive annals of eavesdropping, all of this is something new.
European economies were coping with extensive war-related damage and a broad array of impediments to their efforts to rebuild their industrial base.
Similarly, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and the Indian Ocean, particularly along the coast of Somalia, threatens Europe’s maritime activities, including its extensive sea-borne commerce.
Uncertain funding prospects not only discourage scientists from pursuing risky or undirected lines of research that could lead to crucial discoveries; they also make it more difficult to recruit the best and brightest for scientific careers, especially given the extensive training and specialization that such careers require.
But addressing them requires a prudent strategy that accounts for the structural fragility of the scientific enterprise, in which scientists must complete extensive training, regulation can easily stifle creativity, and funding limitations can substantially delay progress.
Their extensive promises, assurances, and pre-commitments have lured market participants into a false sense of security.
For molecular research, in the absence of extensive replication, the refutation rate may occasionally exceed 99%.
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