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The phrase "a major brain drain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant loss of skilled or educated individuals from a particular area or country, often due to better opportunities elsewhere.
Example: "The country's economic instability has led to a major brain drain, with many professionals seeking jobs abroad."
Alternatives: "significant talent exodus" or "substantial intellectual migration".
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Brain drain.
When organisations or countries can pay higher salaries to attract talented people from poorer countries, there's a brain drain, a loss of talent.
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Britain is facing a major brain drain as scientists abandon the country for better-funded jobs abroad.
Britain is facing a major brain drain as scientists abandon the country for better-funded jobs abroad, a Guardian investigation reveals today.
"We're talking about a major brain drain," Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Moscow's chapter of Human Rights Watch, told The Moscow Times.
About 31,000 highly qualified British resident workers have left the north each year in the past decade with only 23,500 a year moving in the opposite direction.The Tory architect of George Osborne's "northern powerhouse" strategy and leaders of Britain's largest northern cities are demanding that the government acts to reverse a major brain drain to the south of England.
The RAE began as an attempt to funnel dwindling resources into the best research programmes at a time when severe cuts in public spending evoked fears of a major brain drain.
The Democratic foreign policy establishment is suffering from a major brain drain.
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This second challenge is generally recognized and is a major cause of ?brain drain" of young scientists from one country to another, particularly to the United States.
The lack of access to many major instruments caused a brain drain in the community up until the early 1990s, when Canadian science began to catch up.
In recent years, however, Australia has begun to turn a brain drain into a brain gain.
As a result, "internal brain drain" is a common problem.
A huge brain drain.
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