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To a drastic degree.
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drastically reduced prices
This recession has been drastically different.
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The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
On Christmas Day itself there will be no trains, for recent experience has shown that few wish to travel then, even on services which had been drastically reduced: earlier closing of shops and offices on Christmas Eve is the chief reason for this change in the pattern of travel.
The proposed cuts mean that the agency could be forced to drastically shrink its workforce from about 10,000 to 294 employees.
In a drastic manner.
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Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat.
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It explains why a Democratic Congress foisted Prohibition on the country and a Republican Congress drastically legislated to enforce it, when ordinarily the two parties are only too anxious for any political stick to beat each other with.
Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law.
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A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.
Adverb
in a drastic manner