Collocations withbreakthrough

These are words often used in combination withbreakthrough.

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big breakthrough
Yes, that was a big breakthrough.
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breakthrough album
The album proved to be the band's breakthrough album.
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breakthrough season
The 2008-09 season was his breakthrough season.
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important breakthrough
This is an important breakthrough in human thought.
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major breakthrough
But it is true that the identity major breakthrough.
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real breakthrough
I suspect that the real breakthrough will not come until the post-coital pill is perfected.
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scientific breakthrough
Its scientific breakthrough occurred in the dual context of modernity and the construction of the nation state.
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significant breakthrough
It is a significant breakthrough.
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technological breakthrough
Is it a lot to ask for this technological breakthrough?
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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