significant damage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantanddamage
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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damage
noun
uk/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/
harm ...
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(Definition ofsignificantanddamagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Popular newspapers, by reaching these supposedly impressionable groups, had the potential to causesignificantdamage.
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Amazingly, neither vessel had suffered anysignificantdamageduring the weeks of battling the ice.
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There wassignificantdamageto property.
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What is meant by "significantdamage"?
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They graze there and in some cases dosignificantdamage.
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There have been no reports ofsignificantdamage.
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By and large, there is little to suggest that skeletal muscle incurs anysignificantdamageduring bypass, either in adults or children.
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Even accessing data, especially confidential and sensitive information such as bank accounts, credit card numbers and reservation prices, may be sufficient to causesignificantdamage.
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They are structures that have the potential to bring aboutsignificantdamageto the terrestrial and biological environment, and remediation is both expensive, and problematic.
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The present study indicates that the relatively short-term pulmonary infection causessignificantdamage and the host may accumulate pathological effects.
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This lack of regeneration occurs when there issignificantdamageduring logging (due t o excessive tree removal, d estructive extraction practices or poor road planning).
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It is, therefore, possible that in the three surviving bats, virions arrived in the spinal cord and, without causingsignificantdamage, proceeded centrifugally to the salivary glands.
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It seemed that antibodies did not causesignificantdamageto adult worms as they were actively moving after overnight incubation with 100 mg/ ml of antibodies.
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There has beensignificantdamageto property during the current conflict.
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Information is not available at present to show whether there has beensignificantdamageto property.
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It is not anticipated that the exercise will causesignificantdamageto private property.
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I have a list that shows his potential for causingsignificantdamagein the region.
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It could dosignificantdamageif the result is a series of bilaterals.
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Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide also cause acid rain andsignificantdamageto health.
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Nor was there anysignificantdamageto property outside the railway sidings directly involved.
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Information is not available at present whether there has beensignificantdamageto property.
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A contraction of the summer holiday may causesignificantdamageto some of its businesses.
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I believe that it is quite possible without damage—or at leastsignificantdamage—to either.
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However, if nothing is done, such fishing for an extensive period of time causessignificantdamage.
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