significant departure from
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificant,departureandfrom
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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departure
noun[C]
uk/dɪˈpɑː.tʃər/us/dɪˈpɑːr.tʃɚ/
the fact of a person or vehicle, etc. ...
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from
preposition
uk/frɒm/us/frɑːm/
used to show the place where someone or ...
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(Definition ofsignificant,departureandfromfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The introduction of a new version of official knowledge in 1999 represents asignificantdeparturefrom previous versions.
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This represented asignificantdeparturefrom the activism he had shown earlier in shaping the nation's external relations.
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While the oral narrative task represented asignificantdeparturefrom conversational discourse, the students produced their respective narratives under a less "autonomous" condition.
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These results constitute asignificantdeparturefrom previous notions about the evolution of stratified turbulence, which were largely based on salt-stratified water data.
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Nonetheless,significantdeparturefrom the normal values for these variables was not observed.
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It is asignificantdeparturefrom previously reported quantitative research perspectives.
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Substantial changes in the competitive abilities would be required to produce asignificantdeparturefrom a straight line.
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Test 1 failed to establish anysignificantdeparturefrom the expected on this hypothesis.
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The concern to consult and include a wider range of stakeholders in developing a plan for the common marks asignificantdeparture.
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More generally, we also stress that the do-it-both-ways rule is asignificantdeparturefrom empirically blind conventions that experimental economists currently take for granted.
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It would be asignificantdeparturefrom conversational norms for the addressee not to deal with my 'mismatch'.
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Both the functional and the task-based syllabuses represented asignificantdeparturefrom the formal syllabus.
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The required upward and downward moves of national standards will neutralize each other, hence implying nosignificantdeparturefrom the status quo.
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It is evident therefore that the fall in the growth rate in the period 1971-72 represents asignificantdeparturefrom the trend in the period 1960-70.
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Bartlett's modified likelihood ratio test of equality of covariances did not indicate asignificantdeparturefrom homogeneity, x 2 10!
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This is a statisticallysignificantdeparturefrom equiprobability: with a x2 of 37.29 and one degree of freedom, the probability of a difference this large is 1.0229.
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Caffeine consumption was precluded 2 hr prior to sampling and days representing asignificantdeparturefrom the typical routine were avoided.
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