adjective
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a considerable/substantial/significant number (= quite a large number )
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He received a substantial number of votes.
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A considerable number of students left after the first year.
a major/significant expansion (= large and important )
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The company is planning a major expansion of its retail outlets.
a major/significant impact (= important )
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The war had a major impact on French domestic politics.
a major/significant landmark (= an important one )
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From Parliament Hill, you can see most of London's major landmarks.
a significant correlation
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There is no significant correlation between age and work performance.
a significant feature (= one that has an important effect )
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Bad weather was a significant feature in the accident.
a significant incentive
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The high financial rewards provide a significant incentive.
a significant minority (= a large and fairly important minority )
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A significant minority of older people have difficulty in caring for themselves.
a significant reduction (= large and noticeable )
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There has been a significant reduction in traffic since the bypass was built.
a significant role
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Technology is already playing a significant role in classroom teaching.
a significant/important breakthrough
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Another very significant breakthrough has been made by Dr David Peacock.
a significant/important contribution
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All of you can make a significant contribution to the organization.
a significant/marked shift (= big and noticeable )
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There has been a significant shift in government policy on education.
a significant/substantial concession
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Israel refused to give up Sinai without some significant concession on Egypt's part.
a significant/substantial/considerable improvement (= quite big )
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There has been a considerable improvement in trading conditions.
a strong/significant relationship
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Studies show a significant relationship between smoking and heart disease.
an important/significant aspect
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A person’s nationality is an important aspect of their identity.
an important/significant event
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It’s natural to be nervous before such an important event.
an important/significant exception
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The treaty was ratified by all the EU member countries, with one significant exception, Britain.
an important/significant/crucial difference
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A study of the two groups of students showed a significant difference.
an important/significant/major influence
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Parents have an important influence on children's development.
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He was a major influence on my musical tastes.
great/serious/significant harm
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If you drink too much alcohol, you can do yourself serious harm.
impressive/significant/great etc accomplishment
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Cutting the budget was an impressive accomplishment.
serious/significant erosion
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The demonstrators were protesting about the serious erosion of individual freedoms.
significant erosion (= quite severe )
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This system of cultivation leads to significant erosion of the subsoil.
significant figure
significant other
significant
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The change in blood pressure was not significant.
significant (= very important )
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This bonus constitutes a significant portion of their total income.
significant
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We get a significant percentage of our oil from Nigeria and Angola.
significant/marked (= definite and noticeable )
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Over the last few years, there has been a marked increase in tourism to developing countries.
significant/real progress
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Significant progress has been made in reducing nuclear weapons.
significant/substantial/marked (= quite big )
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Global warming could have a significant effect on agriculture in many parts of the world.
substantial/significant
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Manufacturers claimed the increase would mean a substantial rise in costs.
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Wealthy Americans face a significant rise in their income tax rate.
to a considerable/significant extent (= a considerable or significant amount )
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The affair affected his popularity to a considerable extent.
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■ ADVERB
also
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The survey is perhaps also significant for the total absence of any importance being placed on welfare law work.
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The other recent cases were also significant .
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It's also significant that there is no place in the Top Twenty for clothes, religion or politics.
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It is silly to exaggerate differences when the similarities are also significant .
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Within these continuities, the individual variety is also significant .
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Time Out is also significant for Cadbury as a mainstream snack product.
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Yet there were also significant differences.
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When we turn to the theatre the question of scale is also significant .
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The differences are as significant as the similarities.
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This gradual process was in its way just as significant as the more dramatic annexations of former Angevin territories.
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Omissions from the Bill are perhaps as significant as its contents.
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The scope of their kinship networks is smaller, but just as significant because they provide help in times of hardship.
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Some of these, for example the popular fronts in the republics, established themselves as significant features of the political scene.
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Paper rounds in particular were seen as significant in these respects.
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In other words, organisational processes are as significant as organisational tasks and the one should inform the other.
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And will advertising play as significant a part in the 1992 election campaign as in 1979, 1983 or 1987?
highly
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The number is highly significant in all esoteric teachings.
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Because most of the data in this world is inexact, this characteristic becomes highly significant .
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It was a highly significant one.
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Those who later gave birth to sons averaged 2. 26, a highly significant difference.
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These were highly significant proposals and meant a radical change in the nature of community care in the United Kingdom.
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Group action may however be highly significant .
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Basil Rocke played a highly significant role in the beginning of this transformation of the ethos of the classroom.
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The growth of the library supplier has been a highly significant development of the past 20 years.
less
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The same was certainly true of me, although my role was clearly less significant .
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In Morita therapy, feelings are considered less significant than will.
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Its rejection is less significant than its proposal.
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Its commercial and industrial wealth was less significant .
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However, less significant defects are often readily identified.
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Technique errors were less significant contributors to measurement inaccuracies. 7.
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Other new appointments made in response to the changing balance in international relations between economic and political considerations were less significant .
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This does not make the attitudinal data any less significant .
more
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Perhaps more significant are the events in the remaining and short history of the Rochdale Co-operative Manufacturing Society.
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Much more significant is the expansion of pluralism beyond the traditions of the JudeoChristian faith.
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But that day Philip gained something more significant than temporary control of a couple of lordships.
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But far more significant is the up-turn in the world market.
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Coming out of the closet is more significant to white lesbians.
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As with nearly all financial data, changes in the ratios may be more significant than their absolute values.
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Every time Ralph saw Old Chao, he seemed to be orbiting the halls over his ever more significant findings.
most
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Britain's most significant land battle in the Seven Years War, at Minden in 1759, had involved 4,400 infantry.
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This final and most significant level of metaphor is best seen in relation to the pond.
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In the end there is nothing external to the broadest and most significant institutions.
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Are most significant social changes directly attributable to violence?
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For present purposes we may turn directly to societies in which the most significant relations were already vertically structured.
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Florida could experience some of the most significant changes under the law, experts say.
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The four most significant findings of the research were: 1.
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One of the most significant areas covered by the Act is the conduct of interrogations by the police.
particularly
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This is particularly significant in the case of weak overlaps.
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That constant barrage of noise is particularly significant .
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This is particularly significant in the definition and subsequent management of the same record stored on several different media.
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In itself this is not a particularly distinctive or particularly significant feature.
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Age is particularly significant for women psychologists.
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Although there are minor divisions of interest between these three groups, Scott does not regard the divisions as particularly significant .
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The growth in curriculum-related roles is particularly significant .
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Such tensions may be particularly significant in the adolescent peer group.
statistically
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Whether these figures are statistically significant is doubtful.
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This relationship, while statistically significant , was not strong.
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In 66 cases there was a statistically significant effect which could not be explained by any other means.
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Walker found that there was no statistically significant difference between the degree results of these two groups.
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Infections appeared to occur more commonly in the cyclosporin group, although the difference was not statistically significant .
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A difference with a p value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant .
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So far the figures show a variation that is not statistically significant .
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We chose a p value of 0.01 and judged results greater than this as not statistically significant .
very
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The proximity, both geographically and chronologically, of such similar structural arrangements is, clearly, very significant .
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Differences of three or six ounces divided among twelve units are not very significant .
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Yet the seventies saw a very significant decline in long-term debenture financing.
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The amount of volunteering required for major international events can be very significant .
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We consider the Prime Minister's visit very significant ...
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There are a multitude of other very significant changes on specific matters relating to monopolies and styles of practice.
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Raising additional funds on this narrow tax base will mean very significant increases in the tax.
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There are still, however, very significant economic inequalities between different areas.
■ NOUN
amount
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In financial terms, the income of the unemployed drops, usually by a significant amount .
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Although anorthosite and basalt are the dominant rocks on the Moon, significant amounts of several other related rock types occur.
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The presence of significant amounts of haemoglobin F has a protective effect against sickling and such individuals express relatively mild disease.
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Obviously, such a drastic revision created a significant amount of tension at the plant.
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To win a significant amount of new business would require a big cultural change at the company.
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Even after prolonged secondary hyperaldosteronism, human sweat still contains significant amounts of sodium.
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Pumps in the backpack circulated water round the pipes without loosing significant amounts .
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But the crews of high-altitude aircraft, especially on polar routes, can receive significant amounts of radiation over time.
change
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There is no significant change in leukaemia rates in the two periods.
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For once the theater is secured, it is for ever protected from demolition or significant changes to its historic character.
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Recent reforms could bring about significant changes in the organisation of the National Health Service and in the delivery of care.
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Florida could experience some of the most significant changes under the law, experts say.
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There are equally significant changes implied in the role of general managers.
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That will involve significant change from the separation, suspicion, and even outright confrontation that have existed for decades.
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Over the next fifty years, a significant change in policy took place.
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And the Williams piece underwent some significant changes .
contribution
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It was decided to have two selectors who have made significant contributions to contemporary art; one artist and one critic.
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With children we can also discuss women passed over in history and literature who have made significant contributions .
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It should be observed that the most significant contribution to compensation for injured workmen has been through insurance rather than the tort system.
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I appreciate your confidence and I believe that I could make a significant contribution to your organization.
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Clearly not all teachers are in a position to make significant contributions to national debate.
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This archive will make a significant contribution to a number of debates in social science which have so far lacked appropriate data.
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In doing so it is intended to make a significant contribution to information for policymakers.
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It has been shown to make a significant contribution to text recognition, and the results are described in Chapter Three.
correlation
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His only significant correlation is between the level of communication and democratic performance.
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There was also a relatively minor but significant correlation between the rate of known opioid use and townships' population size.
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No significant correlations were apparent between creatinine clearance and either duration of mesalazine treatment or cumulative mesalazine dose.
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The second important finding from this study is the significant correlation between faecal wet weight and stool fat.
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There were no significant correlations between enzyme expression and Dukes's grade.
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In medicine, as in other occupations, there is no significant correlation between age and work performance.
development
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In the meantime a significant development took place.
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It is considered one of the most significant developments in the fight against many brain disorders and diseases.
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The growth of the library supplier has been a highly significant development of the past 20 years.
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This is not to say that significant developments were lacking.
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During the eighties, three significant developments occurred.
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Two significant developments must be stressed.
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But the really significant development lies elsewhere.
difference
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In all cases, probability values less than 0.05 were taken to indicate significant differences .
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Pegged exchange rates are not viable when significant differences exist in national inflation rates.
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Furthermore, no significant differences between treatments were found for recurrent ischaemia or non-fatal reinfarction.
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Substantial improvement was documented at follow-up to 2 years in both groups, with no significant differences between groups over time.
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There were no significant differences in any of these arrhythmias between the two groups.
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However, there also are significant differences .
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No significant differences in sphincter pressure were noted.
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There were no significant differences in the prevalence of heartburn and regurgitation among the different degrees of endoscopic oesophagitis.
effect
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Similarly on the syntactic level, individual features are likely to have a less significant effect than features in combination.
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But such economic considerations have had no significant effect on the way government-run launch vehicles are designed and operated.
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The impact of family disruption may also have significant effects .
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The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility.
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Though the patient's age had no significant effect on control, years since diagnosis did.
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The key elements are instead discretion and significant effects .
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The independently significant effects found at 16 weeks were maintained at 32 weeks.
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But there may be single genes which in a very small number of people have a significant effect .
factor
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At the time it was genuinely believed that he was a significant factor in the unsatisfactory World Cup performance.
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Instead, the Packers are thriving, proving once more that sound management is the most significant factor in sports.
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But for many old people, being without children is a significant factor in loneliness and isolation.
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In the ideal-type command economy, the state assumes total control of virtually all the significant factors of production.
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He distinguished between the 1960s and the 1970s, arguing that the balance of significant factors had shifted between the two periods.
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Here the significant factor may have been bureaucrats' tendency to rank personal pleasure above the public interest.
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Timing was also a significant factor in the production of this interim report.
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Size of establishment is a significant factor , for various reasons.
feature
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A falling savings ratio and rapidly rising consumer expenditure were certainly significant features of the second half of the 1980s.
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In itself this is not a particularly distinctive or particularly significant feature .
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There we shall look at the functions and services supplied by each and at the significant features of their balance sheets.
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It may well have significant features of more than one language.
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One can, then, only obtain approximations to the height of the significant features .
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Some of these, for example the popular fronts in the republics, established themselves as significant features of the political scene.
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A significant feature is that for many of these companies their overseas activities are more important than their domestic ones.
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One of its most significant features is the choice of a gas turbine rather than internal combustion engine.
impact
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O'Leary and Deane both made very significant impacts .
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The structure of taxes and transfer payments can have a significant impact upon the distribution of income.
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This pragmatic movement in philosophy also had a significant impact on the social theory of the time.
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These changes could have significant impact if prosecutions were brought and convictions achieved.
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The case produced a significant impact at the time, and has been restrictively construed.
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Last week two men who might have had a significant impact on the issue bowed out.
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The Ford talks are expected to have a significant impact on pay talks throughout manufacturing industry in the next six months.
improvement
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This shows that there was significant improvement in pointing after adaptation.
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This restructuring legislation does make some significant improvements in tax administration.
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That produced greater commitment, which in turn produced significant improvement in every organizational element.
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The Government have made significant improvements in that regard.
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It may show a significant improvement in which case you can conclude the child is learning.
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Modest but significant improvements were made in farming equipment.
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Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path.
increase
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So far, such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid.
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As a result of its total quality management program, a manufacturing firm we worked with experienced a significant increase in business.
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There was a significant increase in accuracy after adaptation in both cases; this causes a contradiction.
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Sears Roebuck bucked the largely bleak holiday sales trend, reporting significant increases in apparel sales.
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Business Studies continued to show the largest demand with very significant increases recorded in Marketing and Public Relations.
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Table 3 and Table 4 both show that there is a significant increase in reaction time as the levels of processing increase.
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The area farmed has remained much the same but there has been a significant increase in farm size.
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There was, however, a slightly significant increase in right field advantage.
influence
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Only in the rapidly declining Liberal party did the radicals have any significant influence on policy.
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Even with stringent controls for partisanship and ideology, multiple regression analyses show that the press had a significant influence on preferences.
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In addition, government policies on taxation and welfare benefits will have a significant influence .
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To this principle many exceptions are recognized and it can not be said to have had a significant influence on constitutional practice.
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Household size, marital status, and ethnicity all failed to show a significant influence in the participation model.
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The hovering presence of Ford and General Motors remained the most significant influence .
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In our series the histological differentiation grade of the tumour had no significant influence on survival.
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Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked.
minority
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Disability and age While the vast majority of older people are able to live independently, significant minorities experience considerable difficulties.
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Even if you had different views, you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority .
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However, there are a significant minority of male carers who must not be excluded.
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However, there was a significant minority of floating voters: on average about 20 percent of the electorate.
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A significant minority - 21 percent - think it is not very important for staff to receive their own personal copy.
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Increasing Skills Schools fail a significant minority of children.
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For a significant minority , Marxism remained a callous and abstract scheme.
number
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Liberal Democrat Peter Bergg could pick up a significant number of protest votes which will boost his party's previous showing.
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Their letter said that only the State Department had declassified a significant number of documents.
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Korda lacked the resources to lure away a significant number of Rank's key directors.
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In a significant number of marriages, it may be the husband.
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Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience.
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Around 1200, for reasons unknown, significant numbers of Hohokam across the basin relocated outside this valley.
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There were significant numbers of one-parent, female-headed families in this period.
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And neither, by the way, are a significant number of viewers, although they may not share my rationale.
numbers
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In recent times, anthropologists have noted that Inuit had almost universally perfect eyesight until significant numbers of them became literate.
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Religious feminism and antislavery issues began to fuse when significant numbers of women in each cause blended them.
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Around 1200, for reasons unknown, significant numbers of Hohokam across the basin relocated outside this valley.
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Neither are there significant numbers of workstations in active use in schools.
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But even schools that have admitted significant numbers of nontraditional students often retain the feel of elite institutions.
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There were significant numbers of one-parent, female-headed families in this period.
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There is no evidence that large systems would divert significant numbers of travelers from their cars.
part
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The Cathedral in Hong Kong was a significant part of our life in the colony.
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Since November, budget battles and now snow have closed significant parts of the federal government for a total of 31 days.
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As a business executive, your notice entitlement is an immensely significant part of your overall job rights.
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And helping is a very significant part of the vision.
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Early childhood is also a time when drama, dance and music have a significant part to pay.
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Frozen calf embryos have since played a significant part in agriculture and even in conservation.
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Text of the kind exemplified makes up a significant part of what children in primary school are expected to read.
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It now forms a significant part of the country's output.
portion
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Certain villages were strongholds of cattle thieves and their residents derived a significant portion of their incomes from the cattle trade.
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That represented a significant portion of the $ 11. 95 million net worth he reported at the time.
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Bones are counted as complete if they include significant portions of all three segments.
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That could lead to losses of a significant portion of the 100, 000 tons of city-generated waste handled by county landfills.
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Improving Computational Models A significant portion of neural network research centers on the improvement of computational models.
problem
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But policing also remains a significant problem .
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And in retail, upstarts like K-Mart and Wal-Mart were causing significant problems for Sears.
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First, it caused the groups some significant problems .
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The reason for this is that any deterioration in performance will represent a significant problem .
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There are significant problems and risks associated with countertrade.
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People handle these inconsistencies fairly well, but a rigid rule-based system might encounter significant problems .
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But an equally significant problem may well be the behaviour of the personal sector - people.
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The most significant problem or challenge is the permitting process, according to 40 percent of those responding.
progress
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At the close of the round no significant progress had been achieved.
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Virtually everyone in the class had made significant progress in some form of expression.
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Alongside the clinical concerns there has been significant progress in our understanding of the molecular genetics.
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The company had made significant progress .
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This made significant progress on the design difficult as the demands on the capsule varied depending on the technique used.
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Both parties have made significant progress .
proportion
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They also do receive a significant proportion of their income from the sale of goods and services rather than from taxes.
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Political cultures to refer to those in which there are significant proportions of both the simpler and more complex patterns of orientations.
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A significant proportion of these younger interviewees, both male and female, simply ignored the knowledge beginning to accumulate.
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But whether a significant proportion actually behave like Yuppies is another matter.
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Nevertheless, it would seem that this was not considered to be a significant proportion .
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So ended the reign of the first black sporting symbol of significant proportions .
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A significant proportion of the population is sensitive to milk; our obsession with this unnatural substance causes widespread ill-health.
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A significant proportion of the dolphin's brain is thought to be used in processing the information produced by the echolocation system.
reduction
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There was no significant reduction in deaths from myocardial infarction.
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The recently published Medical Research Council trial showed a reduction in strokes but no significant reduction in coronary events.
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As expected, shadowing did result in a significant reduction in right field advantage for the verbal task.
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So I would guess that the next decade will see a significant reduction .
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There is a significant reduction in memory requirements gained from the use of this technique.
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Along with this there was a significant reduction in circulating platelet aggregates.
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If your car is suitable, or has been adjusted to unleaded, you will notice no significant reduction in performance.
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These simple changes will make a significant reduction in the fat content of your diet.
role
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But it can be argued that marketing has a significant role within any social work agency.
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These factors play a significant role in determining how long it will take to train a network.
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Moreover, expedition companies, individuals and host countries must play a more significant role in combating this problem.
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Noise and danger resulting from too many vehicles has played a significant role in making inner cities unpleasant places to be.
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They will retain a significant role through the party machinery in policy formation.
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These particular fatty acids can play a significant role in preventing heart disease and clogged up arteries.
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In this our many friends and members continue to play a significant role .
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In particular, we will neglect audiotex and fax-based publishing altogether since neither look like having a significant role in multimedia applications.
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A significant number of drivers still refuse to wear seat belts.
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There has been a significant change in the tone of the media's coverage.
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They exchanged significant glances.
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Volunteer tutoring programs can have a significant impact on student achievement.
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But at labs that draw business from artists, the proportion of work involving nudity can be significant .
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Corporate leaders were planning to close it unless they could get significant wage concessions from the workers.
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Perhaps more significant are the events in the remaining and short history of the Rochdale Co-operative Manufacturing Society.
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She wanted to come across as the only significant person in Jett's life.
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The Mason-Dixon poll shows a significant gender gap for Dole.
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The most significant of these may be the use of helium-3 in spacecraft propulsion, in a fusion rocket.
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These were far more significant than any item projected in the development plans.