The phrase "significant steps are" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing important actions or measures that are being taken or have been taken in a particular context.
Example: "The significant steps are necessary to ensure the project's success and to meet our deadlines."
Alternatives: "important measures are" or "crucial actions are".
Now, however, small but significant steps are being taken to put cultural landmarking on the map.
Such warming is what scientists' temperature models forecast if significant steps are not taken, and soon, to cut carbon emissions.
Finally, after many years of workshops and hearings, significant steps are being taken to better integrate this section with downtown.
Climate change and other environmental disasters could put 3.1 billion people into extreme poverty by 2050, if no significant steps are taken, says an annual United Nations report on the state of global development.
Yet the conference of the World Rugby Science Network – a global body of researchers interested in both codes – in Bath this month suggested that in rugby union's case significant steps are being made in tackling concussion and more could be on their way.
Several significant steps are discussed: choice of analytical conditions, electrophoretic mobility calculation, mathematical treatment of experimental data by using linear regressions, ligand concentration and ionic strength corrections.
No significant steps were taken, but demand picked up as the economy boomed, and the industry soon recovered.
The company, while acknowledging its frustration with the pace of its progress, argues that significant steps were taken that will eventually help it achieve its goals of improving revenues and earnings.
One of the most significant steps was taking the decision to go back into games away from players, as was the case when Toon and Chrebet entered the league.
Another significant step was the decision in 1854 that the state should be responsible for the building and management of main-line railroads.
This first significant step is in keeping with President Jagdeo's visionary approach to safeguarding all the forests of Guyana," said Iwokrama's chairman, Edward Glover.
