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But a substantial amount still must come from foreign investors, which in the past have largely been major European banks.

Today the aboveground environment appears unaffected, but a substantial amount of moderately degraded petroleum still remains 8 20 cm below the surface.

Most of its product went to the tunnel, but a substantial amount was shipped, frozen, throughout the eastern United States and Canada.

But a substantial amount stays in El Paso: some 350,000 visitors walk across the Paso del Norte bridge into downtown every month.

He added that the airport was not shut at any time but a substantial amount of time was invested into investigating the series of threats and hoaxes made by Collins.

The largest mass of great innovations in knowledge came in an inventor's 30s (42%), but a substantial amount also came during their 40s (30%), and some (14%) came beyond the age of 50.

Nonetheless, the hafnium project received a $30 million budget — a pittance by Pentagon standards, but still a substantial amount — before it disappeared into justly deserved obscurity after five years of fruitless effort.

About 37% of the UK's electricity came from coal in the first three months of this year, down from a peak of 44% in the same period for 2012, but still a substantial amount.

Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning "several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources" – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.

Large-scale efforts to recover DNA sequence data from fresh and archival specimens have shown some level of success (e.g., 50 86%) of potential DNA barcodes recovered31,32, but require a substantial amount of repeated sequencing effort.

"My work is not only going through the administrative process, but also a substantial amount of groundwork to make sure the shooting could go smoothly inside China," he said.