The phrase "substantive number" is not a standard English phrase.
It is not a usable phrase in most contexts. It would not be appropriate to use in written English.
The Ipsos poll is interesting in that it was the only one to include a substantive number of interviews after the vice-presidential debate on Thursday night.
A substantive number of skilled migrants came from Pacific Island countries, where highly skilled professionals were rather scarce.
Investor and serial entrepreneur Brad Feld weighed in on premature scaling to say, "Hiring any substantive number of sales or marketing people before there is customer adoption is premature scaling.
The lyric is an obvious reference to Romney's low tax rate and refusal to release a substantive number of tax returns.
The confounding influence of pseudogenes (from the aberrant secondary structures produced by ITS2 pseudogenes that have accumulated a substantive number of indels as a consequence of the loss of function of the ITS2 gene) can be minimized or eliminated by the use of DMSO during the PCR [104].
Laboratory and physical measurements were missing for a substantive number of patients.
Our study suggests that Costa Rica had substantive numbers of influenza-associated hospitalizations and deaths.
Furthermore, substantive numbers of stars and former stars over 60 years of age are only now becoming available for study.
These data, with the establishment of normal ranges for the assays based on substantive numbers of healthy volunteers, enable a critical appraisal of the value of these measurements for diagnostic and predictive purposes.
30 Our study found that harms caused by others' drinking routinely impact on the safety, well-being (table 2) and feelings of security (table 4) of substantive numbers of young respondents.
That the MASQ-S findings were clearer than the BDI-I and STAI findings for Hypothesis 3 is unsurprising as this was the only scale that contains substantive numbers of anhedonia items, that was specifically designed to distinguish anhedonic symptoms unique to depression from other features of mood disorders, and for which the factor solution has been subject to extensive psychometric validation.
