in substance

In substance, there's not much here for more than a short story.

We had a long talk, but it always came back to that, in substance.

He is not a pretty picture, in substance or style.

What do they have in common that makes them material substances?

He's right; the two sides have never been so close in substance.

But I can tell you that, in substance, this happened.

Most seemed, in style and substance, to date to at least the 15th century.

"It is up to the courts when they come to consider the case in substance."

And the statement he makes is in substance as follows.

It was as though he had increased in substance at the expense of my own.