significant expansion

collocation in English

meaningsofsignificantandexpansion

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significant
adjective
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/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us
/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To start with, the nation's anti-government culture influenced both politicians and citizens to resist anysignificantexpansionof federal government.
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These reports documented asignificantexpansionin the number of farmers' markets nationwide.
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In this context, to have brought his party to support asignificantexpansionof coverage and benefits is a not inconsiderable achievement.
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Under these conditions,significantexpansionof their cultivated area was out of the question.
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However, the evidence that does exist indicates asignificantexpansionin self-help schemes over the course of the first half-decade of independence.
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Specifically, the available historical evidence suggestssignificantexpansionin two variables in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the level of bureaucratic specialization and the extent of regional control.
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We are committed to asignificantexpansionin the national health service work force.
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A further £20 million is being invested this year in asignificantexpansionof the programme.
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Due to the increasing needs of the service in various ways there has been asignificantexpansionin the size of the profession.
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These powers would be triggered by anysignificantexpansionin operations, whether sudden or incremental.
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Therefore, asignificantexpansionof forestry is called for as opposed to simply an expansion of woodland.
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They involve asignificantexpansionof the existing workskill pilots.
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We want asignificantexpansionof nursery education.
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It proposes asignificantexpansionof the specialist schools programme.
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That must also mean asignificantexpansionin funding.
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Anysignificantexpansionhas been ruled out for the time being.
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They show that health authorities are planningsignificantexpansionin services.
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This will be the fourth successive year ofsignificantexpansionand one of the longer lasting recoveries of the post-war period.
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