Most significant, says restaurant critic Vir Sanghvi, is the arrival of the major international brands.
"What do you make of it?" "Symptomatic and significant," says he, "but not important".
But the increases, from a few a year, to dozens, is "significant" says Thomas.
"During this period the German influence was particularly significant," says Panayi.
The development is significant, says Prof Richard Harvey, who has been working with Bear on the research.
Though hard to quantify, "the damage wrought by Nortel on Canadians' retirement savings has been significant," says Gerry Rocchi, president of Barclays Global Investors Canada in Toronto.
The qualification is significant, says Field, because for the first time a young person will have something positive to offer to help secure a tenancy.
"I'm not sure what the proportion of single people is – I assume it's significant," says Dörffer, a Dane who works for an investment fund.
"Many online attacks are denials of service, but the actual impact is not significant," says Prof David Stupples, the director of the Centre for Cyber Security Sciences at City University London.
"These signals from the ruling party show some proposals came from Russia, and they were quite significant," says Oleksandr Sushko, of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Co-operatinn in Kiev.
Risks for the mid-size farmers are significant, says Jonathan Coppess, professor of law and policy at the University of Illinois college of agriculture and consumer economics in Urbana.
