significant percentage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandpercentage
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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percentage
noun
uk/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/us/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The results indicated that asignificantpercentageof the teacher's error-correction moves went unnoticed.
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Asignificantpercentageare not helped by methylphenidate.
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More than half of the nurses expressed concern at losing mileage reimbursement, which represents asignificantpercentageof their monthly pay.
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Asignificantpercentageof the cells had enhanced responses to patterns accompanied by luminance change compared to the staticadaptation case.
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It is really more like a net through which asignificantpercentageof the population passes untouched.
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These resources explain asignificantpercentageof the variance in the marital balance of power after retirement, whereas they play a minor role beforehand.
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The initial experience with balloon angioplasty, although generally disappointing, demonstrated that, in asignificantpercentageof patients, the obstructed conduit could be expanded.
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Asignificantpercentageof the increased number of central graves contain cremated persons.
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Two major characteristics of non-thermal particle distributions are: (1) asignificantpercentageof suprathermal particles and (2) the presence of loss-cone populations.
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Would it be mostly correct, or would asignificantpercentageof the reported definitions turn out to be something else?
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The chance of appropriate education reaching asignificantpercentageof the world's population is, nonetheless, a matter for speculation.
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This is asignificantpercentageif we bear in mind that there were relatively few pubilles.
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It amounted to asignificantpercentageof the family property and probably approximated to the child's share if the family property were divided equally among all the children.
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Low impact, low technology remedial action applied at some sites removed asignificantpercentageof fuel in the active layer, thus reducing the potential for secondary effects.
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In addition, we now realize that residual abnormalities persist for many years in asignificantpercentage of affected women, which likely increase the risk of latent vascular disease.
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Asignificantpercentageof aged (up to 7 years), dark caryopses can still germinate, whereas aged, clear caryopses are much less viable, and often produce abnormal seedlings.
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The main reason is that informal firms, although tiny, are exceptionally numerous, and asignificantpercentageare involved in highly polluting activities such as leather tanning and ceramics.
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In the current year, there is asignificantpercentageincrease in funding.
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The mostsignificantpercentagereduction is in the total output.
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