substantial difference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantialanddifference
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substantial
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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difference
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialanddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A few milliseconds in response time can make asubstantialdifferencein profitability.
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However, there is no such significant andsubstantialdifference.
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There was asubstantialdifferencein rainfall intensity and distribution between the two seasons.
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The idea was to see if the intervention made asubstantialdifferencein the number and kind of solutions generated.
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The reason for this difference in findings may be the result of asubstantialdifferencebetween the populations studied.
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We compared monocular and binocular per formance for two control monkeys and found nosubstantialdifferencein noise density tolerance in either case.
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How these various findings in the literature are related to the present ones remains unclear because ofsubstantialdifferencein the nature of stimuli used.
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That constitutes asubstantialdifferencein temporal autonomy.
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An interesting finding is that there is asubstantialdifferencebetween humans and other animal species.
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That is, context users showed nosubstantialdifferencein their scores between the context only condition and the both kanji and context condition.
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We reduced this to something more reasonable, 50 times/sec, which made asubstantialdifferenceto the results.
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There is asubstantialdifferencebetween their results and ours.
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The lack of asubstantialdifferencebetween the two populations may be due to the proximity of the flooded and non-flooded areas.
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There was nosubstantialdifferencebetween the three antibiotic exposure scenarios in terms of reduction in cumulated meningitis cases.
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Moreover, there is asubstantialdifferencein the degree of exceptionality found with the afto-reflexive cases and the alilo-reciprocals.
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Disagreement among speakers on the status of particular examples does not require that asubstantialdifferencein their idiolects be demonstrated.
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As the figure demonstrates, there is a verysubstantialdifferencein favour of conditional agenda setting.
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There is asubstantialdifferencebetween amateurs and professionals: amateurs act for their own gratification, while professionals must do it for the spectators' gratification.
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But there issubstantialdifferenceamong the authors in the ways that these issues are tackled.
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