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The phrase "a major data" is not correct in standard written English.
The word "data" is typically treated as a plural noun in formal contexts, so it should be used with "major" in a different form, such as "major piece of data" or "major dataset."
Example: "The research team collected a major dataset to analyze the trends in consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "a significant amount of data" or "a substantial dataset."
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Two weeks ago Guardian Money revealed how TalkTalk, which has 4 million customers, had suffered a major data breach.
A major data leak can have devastating effects on reputation and will negative impact a company's balance sheet.
Since then, Apple has made big investments in its online efforts, including a major data center in North Carolina.
Google, now with a major data processing centre alongside its European HQ in Dublin, worked with academics, historians and museums around the city to provide graphics and stories from archive sources.
The mass retention of telecommunications data has raised concerns among industry groups and civil liberties organisations due to the ease of access by government agencies and the increased risk of a major data breach.
A major data breach that exposed the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was caused by Immigration Department failures to check and approve documents for web publication, an independent review has found.
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Both apps – like nearly all UK banking apps – run on a US-based platform called Yodlee, a major data-cloud service provider to global banks.
Rooted in history and deep-seated cultural beliefs, the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) recent decision to invalidate a major data-sharing agreement should be as unsurprising as it is unsettling to U.S. companies conducting business in Europe.
A tool, not a quick fix Your article about data-sifting software (Garbage in, gold out, Apr. 5, p. 80) seemed to imply that Wells Fargo had stopped a major data-warehousing project and substituted the Epiphany.
And the Federal Trade Commission has been looking into the practices of about a dozen major data brokers.
At least a dozen major data centers have been cited for violations of air quality regulations in Virginia and Illinois alone, according to state records.
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