substantial reduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantialandreduction
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substantial
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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reduction
noun
uk/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/us/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/
the act of making something, or of something becoming, smaller in size, amount, degree, ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialandreductionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There has been asubstantialreductionin infant mortality since the late 1940s.
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Owing to the symmetry of the hexagonal substitution region, there is asubstantialreductionin the number of different partition probability functions.
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Continued iteration of the filter picks out the 0-th frequency, and leads (in this approximation) to thesubstantialreductionof the signal.
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Accordingly, even relatively expensive community treatment programmes may be cost-effective if asubstantialreductionin the use of hospital beds is achieved.
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Due to the symmetry of the subgraphs, there is asubstantialreductionin the number of different partition probability functions.
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Note that whole transactions may be removed from the database and asubstantialreductionin complexity may result.
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Our results indicate that these methods can achieve asubstantialreductionin grammar size with little or no loss in parsing performance.
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This constitutes asubstantialreductionin the level of tactical voting.
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Expansion may be generated by a selective sweep or other demographic agent that had caused an earlier,substantialreductionin population size.
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In contrast, most of the larger tasks clearly benefit from the other slot features, withsubstantialreductionin accuracy when only prepositions are used.
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The landlords were dissatisfied with this primarily because it resulted in asubstantialreductionof their income from rent.
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An improved version of the vaccine was registered in 1995, the improvement relating principally to a change in adjuvant leading to asubstantialreductionin animal-to-animal variation in antibody response.
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Preliminary work on a numerical technique which considers the hyperbolic nature of the governing equations indicates that asubstantialreductionin computational time may be possible.
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Sliding regression on three markers at a time, described below, was considered after we noticed asubstantialreductionin power when multiple marker regression was compared with basic contrast mapping.
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For the sparsely populated workspace anticipated in this application, the tree structure would be relatively small, resulting in asubstantialreductionin memory requirement compared to the matrix representation.
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Vitamin treatment was associated withsubstantialreductionin the rate of the composite primary end-point of myocardial infarction, stroke or death from cardiovascular causes.
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In the present study, increasing the frequency of shearing above the current practice of twice per year was associated with asubstantialreductionin entanglement score.
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