substantial interest

collocation in English

meaningsofsubstantialandinterest

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substantial
adjective
uk
/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us
/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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interest
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.trəst/us
/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The book will also be ofsubstantialinterestto embryologists, geneticists and other researchers working in the field of fetal and cardiac development.
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Substantialinterestrate differential and good economic prospects brought back foreign portfolio inflows - that undermined again the stability of the exchange rate regime.
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The identification of a specific brain system that processes fear has createdsubstantialinterestwithin neuroscience.
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There was neither anysubstantialinterestfor the protection of cultural historical elements in the landscape and historical monuments.
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But this fact alone does not create asubstantialinterestin the retention of a particular piece of property.
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The topic is ofsubstantialinterestin the debate over personal accounts.
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The proposal generatedsubstantialinterestand over 140 comments were submitted with a number of parent organizations voicing their support for an expansion of the rule.
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If the former were the case, then there would besubstantialinterestin expanding this area of research and maintaining close connections with, and funding for, these precious samples longitudinally.
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Consequently, and partly due to poor knowledge of the species' biology, there issubstantialinterest in the distribution of pupae among and within trees for both these species.
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Genetic correlations between traits are ofsubstantialinterestbecause, depending on their sign, they can either facilitate or impede the joint evolution of the characters involved.
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I am aware of thesubstantialinterest, especially in relation to major road schemes of this sort.
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Business assets are those that have been used in a trade and holdings in a trading company in which the investor has asubstantialinterest.
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Take for example, the case of a company which had asubstantialinterestin the iron and steel industry, which has now been nationalised.
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Nevertheless, that does not inhibit them from retaining asubstantialinterestfrom which they can derive benefits.
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Consequently, they have had to go outside and borrow £3,000 upon which they have to paysubstantialinterest.
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We also need to remember that if we disregard the verysubstantialinterestcharges which the railways pay, they are still making an operating surplus.
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It will take into account representations from persons who have asubstantialinterestin the matter.
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There wassubstantialinterestand a substantial number of responses.
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