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We were questioned to the nth degree.
We go to the nth degree to get this knowledge across.
They talked about subsidiarity, down to the nth degree of where democracy is.
They may take a product and develop it to the nth degree, by ingenuity applied at the point of production.
That is carrying bulk purchase to the nth degree in this respect.
If we took that to the nth degree and retreated to the very small groups, nobody would do anything.
That is scaremongering almost to the nth degree.
That was absurd; it was secrecy taken to the nth degree.
It is not to carry refinement of the burden of taxation on the shoulders of the individual to the nth degree.