significant quantity

collocation in English

meaningsofsignificantandquantity

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significant
adjective
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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quantity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are talking about asignificantquantityof land.
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In addition, asignificantquantityhas been washed up on our coasts.
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Imports from other countries, not being of anysignificantquantity, were not regulated.
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Nosignificantquantityof other materials in short supply is needed.
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In the period between 1610 and 1717, it will be argued, gold may not have been minted indigenously in anysignificantquantity, but it did not disappear from the market.
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This was only partially successful and asignificantquantityof the radioactivity was discharged to the sea.
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We are not exporting any houses, nor any furniture, nor anysignificantquantityof clothing or food.
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It does not produce any industrial waste insignificantquantity.
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Some fan film productions achievesignificantquantityand or quality.
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Nosignificantquantityof traffic was handled there and its main role was to provide facilities for overnight parking and some maintenance.
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Those village garages that double as the village shop, selling asignificantquantityof groceries and the like, may well qualify for mandatory rate relief.
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Maize and agave are farmed, but not in asignificantquantity.
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The mines also produce asignificantquantityof coal bed methane gas.
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The alkaline earth metal calcium is also present insignificantquantity.
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Bamboo and tobacco grows insignificantquantity, but largely is not considered as economically profitable products.
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In the process it swallows asignificantquantityof sand, which passes through the gut.
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Asignificantquantityof such sequences were only just beginning to become available at this time.
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This energy could be released insignificantquantityonly by substantial heating of the pile; there are no credible circumstances in which such heat could be generated inadvertently.
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By funding welfare increases—in effect, by abstracting cash from the corporate sector—he is moving asignificantquantityof money from saving and investment into consumer spending.
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Given enough notice, any bank should be able to obtain them in asignificantquantityfor their customers.
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In aluminum castings, hydrogen is the only gas that dissolves insignificantquantity, which can result in hydrogen gas porosity.
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When cardinal utility is used, the magnitude of utility differences is treated as an ethically or behaviorallysignificantquantity.
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The term "bulk" in this context means a statisticallysignificantquantityof particles (which can be a microscopic amount).
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