The phrase "a substantial step in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a significant progress or advancement in a particular area or process.
Example: "The new policy represents a substantial step in improving workplace safety standards."
Alternatives: "a significant advancement in" or "a major progress in".
This study provides a substantial step in the technology development required for the translation of this approach.
Our findings represent a substantial step in the application of mechanically robust conformed and densified MOFs for high volumetric energy storage and other industrial applications.
Therefore, assessing the hazard perception of the construction workforce is a substantial step in enhancing on-site safety management, especially in developing countries where construction safety is still at its infancy.
The list of the class of 683 new members invited – including America Ferrera, Tina Fey, and Kate Beckinsale – to join the organization was released on Wednesday, a substantial step in addressing critiques over the Academy's lack of racial diversity, following a furor in January after no actors of color were nominated for any major awards for the second year in a row.
Their demands for Alevi houses of worship to be officially designated as such were again ignored, just as Mr Erdogan's pro-Sunni foreign policy has sharpened feelings of discrimination.For all such grumbles, however, the reforms are a substantial step in the right direction.
Because TH are iodothyronine derivatives, uptake of iodide from the blood stream represents a substantial step in their biosynthesis.
Such an analysis, which includes quantitative information visualized by the thickness of the lines connecting substrates to taxa, is potentially a substantial step forward in our understanding of organic matter flow in the microbial loop.
Thus, the RAT-TRAP assay constitutes a substantial step forward in the ability to analyse the movement of RNPs in vitro.
The paper by Krakstad et al (2012) in this issue of the BJC takes tissue biomarker studies a substantial step forward in endometrial cancer.
There, Ms. Gill Hearn said: "This guilty plea was a substantial step forward in this case.
Graves and colleagues take a substantial step forward in this quest by presenting a neuro-computational system that shows striking similarities to a digital computer.
