Substantial means the main or most important
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 2004 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=79480&dict=CALD
substantial (GENERAL) [Show phonetics] adjective [before noun] FORMAL relating to the main or most important things being considered: The committee were in substantial agreement (= agreed about most of the things discussed).
"Substantial" means in the main
Words and Phrases 2 (Volume 40A, p. 469)
Ill.App.2 Dist. 1923 “Substantial” means in substance, in the main, essential, including material or essential parts
Ballantine’s Law Dictionary (3rd edition, 1969 , p. 1232)
Substantially . In the main. Essentially.
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