significant development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantanddevelopment
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofsignificantanddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The latter approach of observing and analysing user phenomena and then manually constructing rules to cover them incurssignificantdevelopmentand maintenance costs.
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It is obviously a highlysignificantdevelopmentwhich has already had momentous effects on linguistic description.
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In the early modern period there was asignificantdevelopmentof trade across national borders.
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This was asignificantdevelopmentas it marked the first time that corporate capital was sought across state lines.
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This change reflects asignificantdevelopmentin the editorial stance taken; it is now a book of stories as much as a book of words.
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This unabashed identification of nationhood with statehood in the context of full citizenship was asignificantdevelopmentin patriotic and citizenship discourses alike.
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It appears very promising to bringsignificantdevelopmentfor a robot to achieve precision kinematic control in the future.
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The use of gas for power generation also requiredsignificantdevelopment.
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The spread of television into every home153 and its high level of consumption154 is the single mostsignificantdevelopmentin the history of media in the past 60 years.
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This was asignificantdevelopment.
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The mostsignificantdevelopmentin recent times has been the formulation of diagnostic criteria designed to bring some order to the terminological chaos of organic mental syndromes.
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Asignificantdevelopmentin this arena is the movement beyond the view that conceived such performative expressions as the enactment or reflection of fixed systems of meaning.
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They are therefore receiving capital from the fruits of their labour, an important andsignificantdevelopment in the extension of the property-owning democracy.
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Arguably, it is the mostsignificantdevelopmentfor generations.
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This was asignificantdevelopment, and demonstrated a more enlightened attitude towards the partially hearing.
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Of that, a large number would never reach the land commission because they do not involve change orsignificantdevelopment.
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In the last twelve months there has been anothersignificantdevelopment.
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Let us be in no doubt, the fifth terminal is asignificantdevelopment.
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Asignificantdevelopmenthas been the establishment of a modern copra crushing mill.
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