Formality Example 2: Secondly, we need to reduce the internet service access fees. Moreover, there are always technological developments in the pipeline. An idiom: in the pipeline in the process of being completed delivered, or produced Idioms are very rare in academic writing The sentence could be improved as follows Technological advances can also be expected, as companies are always developing their systems in order to stay competitiveFormality • Example 2: • Secondly, we need to reduce the internet service access fees. Moreover, there are always technological developments in the pipeline. • An idiom: in the pipeline – ‘in the process of being completed, delivered, or produced’. • Idioms are very rare in academic writing • The sentence could be improved as follows: • Technological advances can also be expected, as companies are always developing their systems in order to stay competitive