greatest contributor

collocation in English

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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contributor
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈtrɪb.jə.tər/us
/kənˈtrɪb.jə.t̬ɚ/
a person who contributes something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with ...
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(Definition ofgreatandcontributorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The maintenance of adaptive capacity31 may be thegreatestcontributorto longterm sustainability.
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A longitudinal follow-up 10 years later suggested that genetic variance was thegreatestcontributorto stability.
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Direct healthcare costs were thegreatestcontributorto total costs, followed by lost productivity costs due to work absenteeism at both 6 and 12 months.
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People who are better off pay far more to local services because the taxpayer is thegreatestcontributorto local authority spending.
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Is it not a fact that thegreatestcontributorto smoke pollution is the domestic fire?
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He said it was thegreatestcontributorto our recovery after the war.
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There will be a range of other measures in relation to speed, which is thegreatestcontributorto accidents.
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They believe it was thegreatestcontributorto the expansion and improvement of efficiency in the economy of the country.
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But thegreatestcontributoris drink.
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It is the curse of the age, and in my view the singlegreatestcontributorto the contempt in which the public increasingly hold elected politicians.
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Pilgrim is by far thegreatestcontributorto those figures.
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I would single out the "add to" agreement as being thegreatestcontributorto the difficulties which the industry has faced in relation to its credit sales.
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Because of his lifelong work, he has been called thegreatestcontributorto the konkani stage.
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Agricultural practices are the singlegreatestcontributorto the global increase in soil erosion rates.
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Some studies have implied that lightning activity may be thegreatestcontributorto the global nitrogen budget, even larger than the burning of fossil fuels.
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Although a host of chemical processes contribute to acid mine drainage, pyrite oxidation is by far thegreatestcontributor.
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Doolan was one of 90 artists included in the $3 million exhibition and is itsgreatestcontributorwith 22 pieces out of the total of over 350 exhibits.
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We always talk as though we are the greatest contributors, but we are not.
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I, therefore, recall the fact that just as the workers are the greatest sufferers by war, they are perhaps the greatest contributors to the victory which this country now enjoys.
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