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How to use the word substantial in a Sentence? Page #20

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That (80,000 tonnes) is approximately how much you're going to lose and that's substantial in the lead market, it's a very special type of lead concentrate so it's not that easy to replace with other stuff. That's why the lead price is substantially outperforming the other metals.

Stephen Briggs

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There has been a substantial reduction in the net price of both of these drugs just in the past few weeks, so sometimes it pays not to go first.

Peter Wickersham

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There will still be good growth, not necessarily a substantial fall - rates of around 4.3 to 4.5 percent.

John Sfakianakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We do have substantial product in inventory to continue to supply customers.

Husky Duvall

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the short-term, weight loss surgery procedures may be associated with substantial weight loss and remission of diabetes in up to 60 percent of patients.

Martin Gulliford

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The question is, what does this relentless decline in crude oil tell us about the state of the global economy? The impact on oil-exporting countries such as Canada is quite substantial, it's a case where oil is breaking through one downside support level after another. At this point, it's 'sell the energy producers first and worry about the implications later'.

Elvis Picardo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The governor was very good at articulating his position and using substantial arguments to support his position.

Mario Cuomo

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Given the harm caused to animals, the experiments’ limited relevance to humans, the substantial financial cost, and the existence of superior non-animal research methods, the continued use of animals in this work is scientifically and ethically unjustifiable.

Alka Chandna

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Rolling Stone has agreed to publish our report in its entirety, without editing, on its website, as well as substantial excerpts in the magazine.

Columbia Journalism School

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have just closed a case with an iconic company, the taxpayer ultimately accepted the regularization of its fiscal situation, and we'll receive a payment it has to make in the next few days and which will be substantial.

Oscar Molina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The taxpayer ultimately accepted the regularization of its fiscal situation, and we'll receive a payment it has to make in the next few days and which will be substantial.

Oscar Molina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We hope Tim Cook's substantial personal investment inspires others to support this vital and historic project.

Jason Rahlan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

True two-way flows are not very substantial and these are price discovery marks. If the market firms back up in January with real money buyers, we would expect to see improving price levels based on their support.

Robert Dial

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Even in the best possible scenario of how many people we can expect to come in, we will still see a substantial number of people defaulting.

Judy Solomon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think that oil prices will stay low for an extended period and banks will take substantial loan losses as a result of it, if oil prices stay down it makes sense to short banks that are operating in Texas, Colorado, North Dakota, etc.

Richard Bove

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is important to point out that the Vatican is not broke ... the Holy See is paying its way, while possessing substantial assets and investments.

George Pell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

substantial motive and means to flee.

Magistrate Clarke Van Dervort

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Peg Bracken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

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14 years ago

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