substantial degree
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantialanddegree
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substantial
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialanddegreefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Permanent tenancy did not take hold to anysubstantialdegreehere.
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The corresponding fixation indices indicated again asubstantialdegreeof structuring (table 5).
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There was also asubstantialdegreeof ignorance about the types of assistance available.
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All have the expected negative sign, with many accounting for asubstantialdegreeof explained variance.
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These involve, to asubstantialdegree, one or another version of collaboratively oriented simultaneous talk.
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All species showed asubstantialdegreeof responsiveness to light environment in terms of the maximum assimilation rate achieved.
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The unknown butsubstantialdegreeof interdependence among many of the sources also negates claims regarding the ' precision' of estimates.
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Moreover, enterprises that established themselves early in the two sectors could secure asubstantialdegreeof market power.
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Finally, diminutive morphemes result in asubstantialdegreeof phonological similarity amongst the class of diminutives in general.
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These genes cannot be shared to asubstantialdegreebecause the problem of pleiotropy would begin to demodularize cognitive mechanisms.
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That is asubstantialdegreeof permanence.
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It would not quantify the phrase "substantialdegree".
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Most involve asubstantialdegreeof indirect election.
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It is not asubstantialdegreeof optimism.
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Substantialdegreeof risk is purely a relative term.
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I accept that devolution has asubstantialdegreeof merit.
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Together they indicated asubstantialdegreeof informed public participation.
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But there has been asubstantialdegreeof reconstruction.
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It resulted in asubstantialdegreeof growth.
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I think that he exaggerates to asubstantialdegree.
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The contralateral component of lemnothalamic-pallial projections (present to asubstantialdegreein amphibians, birds and reptiles, and, to a minor degree, in mammals) is omitted.
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Finally, although asubstantialdegreeof immunity was induced by the primary infection, it was insufficient to protect calves from lungworm disease after challenge.
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Reproductive success of both partners thus depends to asubstantialdegreeon the process of fig wasp dispersal, about which we know relatively little.
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The fact, therefore, that important variation was found in such a conservative gene suggests that asubstantialdegreeof genetic divergence exists within the species.
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