important contributor to
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important
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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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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to
preposition
uk/tuː/us/tuː/
used before a verb to show that it is in ...
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These studies suggest that the language proficiency of bilinguals is animportantcontributorto their cognitive development.
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Diseases are consequently a potentiallyimportantcontributorto yield collapse, especially as rapeseed area has tended to increase.
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The maintenance of community connections is not articulated in the client-centred care philosophy, but was animportantcontributorto contentment.
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Clinical audit and system analysis often identify inadequate operator knowledge and training as animportantcontributorto adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes.
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This suggests that female fertility may be animportantcontributorto the load for net fitness.
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Our results suggest that school experience is animportantcontributorto the quality of adolescent's academic and emotional life.
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Fibrinolysis represents animportantcontributorto postoperative bleeding.
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Language background was also animportantcontributorto performance on measures of syntactic awareness and verbal working memory throughout kindergarten.
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However, one's judgement regarding one's ability to work may be an even moreimportantcontributorto employability than work skills themselves.
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In this regard, the university can be seen as animportantcontributorto post-war debates about educational reform.
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The importance of the group is that it is animportantcontributorto the overall caesarean section rate.
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She has been animportantcontributorto our understanding of tone, so her views on the field are always of interest.
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Epistasis was shown to be animportantcontributorto the genetic variance of growth, with the largest impact on early growth (before 6 weeks of age).
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Animportantcontributorto the quality of the scientific data, apart from the design of the instruments themselves, is the selection of the sites for deployment of those instruments.
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This study reveals that although the full diagnosis of hypochondriasis is relatively rare in the community population, illness worry is animportantcontributorto help-seeking and disability in general.
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We also welcome your comments and ideas, as we are convinced this area of the world will become an increasinglyimportantcontributorto our respective disciplines.
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Most environmentalists believe that it is animportantcontributorto sustainable development.
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