substantial achievement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantialandachievement
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substantial
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/us/səbˈstæn.ʃəl/
large in size, value, ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofsubstantialandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That the authors have managed to bring together such a varied range of sources represents asubstantialachievement.
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It was thus asubstantialachievement, ending the potential use of territorial uncertainty between the two republics by undemocratic groups seeking influence in the domestic political arena.
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This lack ofsubstantialachievementeither on the statute books or, more importantly, in local classrooms, was not, however, for want of effort on the part of the officials involved.
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Capital spending in the schools programme was noteworthy, and additional spending on, for example, the education of children with special needs was asubstantialachievement.
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This is asubstantialachievement, especially given the higher labour content of these orders as compared with previous production, which included many tankers.
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To get this degree of unanimity between organisations which normally fight one another in an increasingly competitive market-place, was asubstantialachievement.
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By any standards that is asubstantialachievement.
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Perhaps its mostsubstantialachievementwas the consumption of 55 tons of documents, from which a lesson could be learned about its procedure.
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Given the huge increase in traffic, that is asubstantialachievement.
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Will he accept that this has been asubstantialachievement?
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That is asubstantialachievement, bearing in mind the background against which it was achieved.
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This mostsubstantialachievementis being marked at a special ceremony today.
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That is a fairlysubstantialachievementin the course of twenty years or so.
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I emphasise this as asubstantialachievementbecause we have to recognise that it has been done at no small cost to ourselves.
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Treating 240,000 homes is asubstantialachievementand £37.5 million is a substantial sum of money.
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In the difficult times over the past two or three years, that is asubstantialachievement.
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That is asubstantialachievement, much of it by the private sector.
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That is asubstantialachievement, by any standards.
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That is asubstantialachievementand the cost has been significant.
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That is asubstantialachievementand a substantial advantage to all other consumers who would have had to carry the debt.
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