Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] significant increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid . |
| 2 | Contrary to expectations , fundholders ' NHS referral rates showed a small but significant increase from the first phase to the second phase of the study ( table III ) . |
| 3 | In first approximation , the Dcm/Cys177Ser protein is a null mutant ; there is , however a small but significant increase with time of TCA-precipitable radioactive material ( Figure 3 , filled circles ) corresponding to a formal specific activity about 1000 times lower than that of the wild-type enzyme . |
| 4 | Introduction of air , saline ( isotonic and hypertonic ) , glucose ( isotonic and hypertonic ) , oleic acid ( without bile salts ) , and casein hydrolysate all failed to release PYY but glucose caused a small but significant increase in enteroglycagon concentrations . |
| 5 | There was a small but significant increase in phosphatidylethanolamine in duodenal ulcer patients compared with controls , whereas the lipid component was consistently and significantly lower in chronic atrophic gastritis patients . |
| 6 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |