significant amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandamount
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsignificant amount
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The no-credit-control regime has asignificantamountof residual uncertainty.
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The participants' chronological age accounted for a small butsignificantamountof additional variance when entered following these two variables.
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Fetching water and fuelwood for daily household use is generally a woman's responsibility and these activities take asignificantamountof her time.
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Thus, it is not surprising that asignificantamountof research has gone into understanding and manipulating cutaneous wound healing.
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There is also generally asignificantamountof shear present in such an environment.
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However, asignificantamountof extension is still represented by the sediment-filled fissures.
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However, the third predictor did not account for asignificantamountof unique variance (although it approached significance).
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Thus, asignificantamountof work becomes available to the copying agent every time a sharing operation is performed.
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In larger proteins, the inside and outside behave as polymer melts with constraints on the interface, and there is asignificantamountof entropy left.
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Asignificantamountof enzyme activity has been detected in the somatic extract of different developmental stages of the parasite.
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But he demonstrates that asignificantamountof electoral competition in fact occurred during this period while freedom of the press was maintained.
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This chapter includes asignificantamountof technical information that may be beyond the nonspecialist audience.
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The tomato seeds induced to germinate release soluble sugars into the incubation medium, including asignificantamountof mannose, which indicates active polysaccharide degradation.
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It is doubtful, given the above chemistry, that anysignificantamountof nitrate formed in these solutions over the 4 d of testing.
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All six companies in our sample have asignificantamountof contracts issued at the 4.5 % level.
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Note, again, that the results from that analysis were merely tentative due to lack of a statisticallysignificantamountof data.
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This test, however, revealed asignificantamountof heteroscedasticity.
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She acknowledges that resilience is not a 'flawless scientific construct' (p. xxix) and the chapters do cover asignificantamountof definitional ground.
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