substantial loss
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantialandloss
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substantial
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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loss
noun
uk/lɒs/us/lɑːs/
the fact that you no longer have something or have less ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialandlossfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Early season drought inhibits plant growth, affects subsequent development and can lead to asubstantiallossin yield.
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A young worker faces a moresubstantiallossfrom a given fatality risk than an old worker.
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The use of a broader perspective that includes indirect costs is relevant, because gastrointestinal diseases account forsubstantiallossof productivity (80).
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One limitation is the relatively small sample size in the present study, compounded by thesubstantiallossof participants because of attrition.
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In addition, thesubstantiallossof desiccation tolerance from 11 to 13 weeks was not reflected in the transcript abundance.
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If you have little chance to survive asubstantialloss, you might as well take risks that could avert it.
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A nonsignificant chi-square difference indicates that the reduced model may be accepted over the full model without asubstantiallossof fit.
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So, let bi not be eventually constant: without asubstantiallossof generality, we can suppose that bi is strictly increasing.
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As pointed out earlier, the use of child mortality as opposed to infant mortality in the fertility equation entails asubstantiallossin information on recent births.
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A value near '0' would result if the second loser suffered asubstantiallossof votes due to strategic desertion.
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Shattering of the silique causessubstantiallossof viable seeds, which, in some cases, may remain in the seed bank of the soil and infest future crops.
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By weakening this 'equal probability' requirement, we have been able to produce greater extents of compaction, withoutsubstantiallossof parsing performance (as measured by precision and recall).
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Thirdly, any such prisoner should also receive asubstantiallossof remission of sentence.
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It is worrying when a good farmer on his own land makes asubstantialloss, and that is a matter for a debate in itself.
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The skillcentres were making asubstantialloss.
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If the cottage is in his farmyard, will the farmer be compensated for what could be asubstantiallossof value to his farm?
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In at least one case asubstantiallosshas been incurred without any opportunity to recover under the statutory blight provisions.
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So, for a three-month period my constituent will have asubstantiallossof income.
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As a result, owners who had bought from the public sector in good faith experienced asubstantiallossof value.
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From a commercial angle, perhaps we kept that system going far too long, until indeed we were making asubstantialloss.
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