substantial income

collocation in English

meaningsofsubstantialandincome

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substantial
adjective
uk
/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us
/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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income
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪŋ.kʌm/us
/ˈɪn.kʌm/
money that is earned from doing work or received ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialandincomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A serious novelist could speak with a voice of cultural authority - and also earn asubstantialincome.
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The upper class comprises households withsubstantialincomefrom wealth or entrepreneurial activity, or in which the breadwinner is in managerial or professional employment.
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It also shows thesubstantialincomedifferences between small- and large-scale traders.
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The result is that quite asubstantialincomegoes into the home.
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There is a clear need for a body with a much moresubstantialincometo take over and develop the work in this field.
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One must have a fairlysubstantialincomebefore it is of any use.
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Some of them were officers who quite early in life had reached a comparatively high rank with quite asubstantialincome.
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They derivesubstantialincomefrom this source.
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The port rates have been levied for some 70 years or so, and provide the authority withsubstantialincome.
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Yet for some reason totally unexplained asubstantialincometax benefit is to accrue to the salesman in the less populated areas.
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So his onlysubstantialincomecomes from selling his lambs down the hill—and one cannot sell lambs at the moment.
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Asubstantialincomefrom investment and savings will not be taken account of in the formula.
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People are acutely aware that thesubstantialincomethat comes from dispensing benefit payments will disappear.
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To my way of thinking, £24,000 is asubstantialincomefor a charity.
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But we must not give away a verysubstantialincomefor this country.
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That we who enjoy asubstantialincomeshould be in receipt of child benefit—a most unfocused benefit—is nonsense.
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Any man of average ability practising in the courts is able to earn asubstantialincome.
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Those people have no opportunity to go back to their two homes andsubstantialincomeafter just a week.
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They will gainsubstantialincometax advantages in doing that.
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