significant achievement

collocation in English

meaningsofsignificantandachievement

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significant
adjective
uk
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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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 ofsignificantandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We take this to be asignificantachievement, since stress is an overtly nuclear phenomenon : only vowels (and syllabic consonants) can bear stress.
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If the dorsal cortical system is also responsible for that verysignificantachievement, its activity must be at least partly conscious.
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This is indeed asignificantachievement.
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The mostsignificantachievementof the constructivist turn, from an archaeological perspective, was less an unveiling of the ancient subject than a decentring of the historical modern subject.
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Klatch's mostsignificantachievementis demonstrating that, despite their differences, left and right shared much in common.
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I also think that the compromise on the decommissioning funds was a verysignificantachievement.
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There should not merely be constructive compromise, those were your words, there must besignificantachievement.
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The new article therefore represents asignificantachievement.
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To come down to 1 ppm is asignificantachievement.
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That is asignificantachievementin the circumstances.
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For the first time, we have a strategy to prevent ill-health as well as to treat it, and that is asignificantachievement.
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If one can get the industry and commerce of the northern regions and local authorities together, that will be asignificantachievement.
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I believe that that is asignificantachievement.
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It was, of course, asignificantachievement, and all the more powerful because it was unanimous.
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That is asignificantachievement, but we cannot allow ourselves to become complacent.
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I should have thought that that was asignificantachievement.
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That is asignificantachievementfor the unit's 25 staff.
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It is asignificantachievementthat the trust has continued to meet its in-patient waiting list targets during this difficult period.
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This represents a verysignificantachievementin terms of the improved utilisation of resources.
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I regard this as asignificantachievementwhich has been attained against an extremely difficult economic background.
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