Adverb
In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. Arnold J. Toynbee
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. Jane Goodall
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain. Benjamin Graham
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. Hjalmar Schacht
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. Jerry Fodor