The part of the sentence "it is not as significant" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to show that something is not as important or is not as large of a factor in a situation as something else. For example, "While the success of the project is important, it is not as significant as the safety of the workers."
"It is not as significant as it first seems, in our opinion," said Joseph Agnese, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, who expressed surprise at investors' reaction to the Wal-Mart announcement, which sent shares of its competitors CVS and Walgreen down sharply yesterday.
Point to any apparently significant aspect of the constitution the Charter of Fundamental Rights or the creation of a European foreign minister, for example—and somebody from Britain's Foreign Office will be at hand to explain that it is not as significant as it sounds.The British have done dogged and effective work to pare back the more federalist aspects of the constitution.
While an increase of the correlation for the latter is also observed in metacyclic trypomastigotes, it is not as significant (r = 0.31 and 0.48 for transcriptome and translatome to proteome respectively).
Although this type of inadvertent duplication may sometimes occur, it is not as significant as when large amounts of recycled text are used; this may be more indicative of the purposeful intent of an author to deceive the reader (Hexham, 1999).
"In my estimation, it's not as significant as when he first did this," the trainer Kevin O'Neill said.
"I wouldn't say the plan signifies nothing; but it's not as significant at it sounds," as Garner puts it.
It's not as significant a step up from sites like Smugmug, but the interface and theme design make it a more practical choice for the photography professional, or the "enthusiastic amateur" like myself.
"Or maybe they did know [how harmful it was] but it wasn't that damaging by intelligence community priorities - this was very damaging to Sony but in terms of national security it's not as significant".
Now, it's still an advantage, but it's not as significant.
The implantation rate per embryos thawed increased too, but it was not as significant (22.1% versus 17.5%).
The expression of these genes increased during the progress of ripening, however, it was not as significant as the increase in the XTH, PL and PE genes.
