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Discover LudwigThe phrase "second importance" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to indicate something that is of lesser significance compared to something else.
Example: "While the main goal is to increase sales, customer satisfaction is of second importance."
Alternatives: "secondary importance" or "lesser importance."
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Nonetheless, what Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1832 about New England, where "the State itself, as compared with the town, has only a second importance," apparently still holds true.
Only if the two occupations differ on important characteristics will they be measured as "far away" by this measure, whereas unimportant differences could result in an overstatement of the distance as measured in number 1. Consequently this paper employs the second (importance weights) calculation of distance between occupations.
Of second importance are the three anti-PM/Scl-positive DM patients.
The second importance measure is the Gini importance of a variable and is calculated as the sum of the Gini impurity decrease of every node in the forest for which that variable was used for splitting.
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However, this disease is the fourth important NCD cause of death and the sixth importance NCD cause of loss of quality of life in this country.
This shaping is of the first importance.
This is a question of first importance," Mao wrote.
It was hailed by this newspaper as a "political event of the first importance".
Who are our friends?" This, Mao said, was "a question of first importance for the revolution".
He was the author of an impressive number of works of the first importance.
The correct choice of conditions of display and storage is, therefore, of the first importance.
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