Example sentences of "of more significance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman studied medicine at Cambridge and , on graduating , even briefly practised it ; of more significance , however , in the light of his subsequent career , was a meeting with John Cleese , with whom he was to write and perform numerous sketches , most notably for David Frost . |
| 2 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 3 | What appears to be of more significance for the role of keiretsu in Japan 's economic growth is their objective of diversifying their interests in the widest possible range of activities throughout manufacturing industry , construction , finance and the service sector . |
| 4 | There are however a few large and careful terracotta figures of more significance . |
| 5 | Nothing was of more significance in the intellectual and institutional development of medieval Europe , indeed of modern Europe , than the rediscovery of the Roman law texts in the eleventh century . |
| 6 | Derry are seventh and Dundalk eighth in the Bord Gais table , but of more significance perhaps is the points gap — both teams trail pacesetters Cork City by six points . |