The phrase "as the next significant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or indicating the importance of something in relation to the following item or event.
Example: "The results of this experiment are as the next significant breakthrough in our research."
Alternatives: "as the following important" or "as the subsequent notable".
"Alongside them in host nation places will be the two James's (Honeybone and Davis), Corinna Lawrence and Sophie Williams - all young fencers who will be looking to gain vital experience of the Olympic environment as they make the next significant step in their promising careers".
From the 200-metre podium came the next significant political gesture as the US champion, Tommy Smith, and his compatriot, bronze medallist John Carlos, raised their fists in black power salutes.
It was also a world of stratospherically differentiated removes, in which the Ritz hotel and the rat-haunted bedsit, the flyblown country cottage and the out-of-season continental resort all play their part, and the next significant other is as likely to be a half-starved painter as a chequebook-wielding millionaire.
"The next significant rain event is going to be critical.
"The next significant move isn't up 20 percentt, he said.
The next significant influence was the Green Revolution in the 1960s.
Two variables with marginal significance at the screening level (p-value close to 0.150), namely, the soils' suitability to produce habitat for coniferous hardwood trees and the latest month when natural annual flooding could end in a normal year, as well as the next least significant variable: the overall clay content (p = 0.141), had to be removed before convergence was reached.
Table 5 shows the estimated model parameters at step 1 of the logistic regression with only Southampton included, and also those for the logistic regression with Southampton already in the model and the variable Single entered as the next most significant predictor, with a p value of 0.055.
Each client appears as valuable as the next, no story less significant.
Nearly a year after the United States team captivated the country with its galvanizing run to the championship match of the World Cup, it appears the popularity of the team remains high as it prepares for its next significant international test.
