medida in English:

They require a lot of equipment, safety measures, and well-trained and qualified instructors.

preventive measures

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.

Lately it's not so fashionable to measure success by how far you climb up the corporate ladder.

While the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

In my work, I sometimes simply determine an area with a tape measure.

There is a second way to define the Gabriel-Roiter measure which may be more intuitive.

We are, in large measure, responsible for students' success in the entrance exam.

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Looks, brains, reflexes, rich family and, for good measure, vice president of the student committee - in other words he's 'perfect'.

I must measure a biulding because I want to put a new conveyor inside it.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

to what extent

Let's use our brains to the greatest extent possible and see what happens during the planning stages!

To this extent, it has the characteristics of a great complicated balance between plant life and lower forms of animal life.

Foreigners complain that it is difficult to get to know Japanese people. To some extent this may be true.

You were always a perfect 'superhuman' to an infuriating extent, and so that 'habit' was actually one of your cute, or rather charming, attributes.

The earth's ecosystem is to some extent self-correcting, so it is also possible that the effects are being masked by other changes.

Jimmy is to some extent capable of performing this operation.

To a certain extent, we are all responsible for this tragic situation.

What kind of habits can damage one's health to a large extent?

Credit is an amount or limit to the extent of which a person may receive goods or money for payment in the future.

Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models - which are always inadequate, often incomplete and sometimes profoundly wrong.

Snakes are -to a certain extent- deaf, but can still hear very low sounds and are very sensitive to smells.

I don't know Spanish, but with the help of a Spanish-German dictionary, I nevertheless understood your letter to some extent.

He has come to look like a sly-as-a-fox Premier who uses his position's powers to the fullest extent, to his own advantage.