key factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandfactor
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofkeyandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey factor
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Instead, thekeyfactorwas ideology.
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The researcher's skill is akeyfactorhere.
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The multiplicity of interests in government was akeyfactor.
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Choosing to take part was akeyfactor.
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The problematic narrative of the book is akeyfactor.
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Costs are akeyfactorin the policy arena.
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Thus, the timing of the intervention is thekeyfactor.
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Here the gold standard was akeyfactor.
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One suchkeyfactoris short-term stability.
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Thekeyfactorresponsible for this is the price difference between diesel and petrol.
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Language is akeyfactorin the conduits through which punk travels.
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However, there is onekeyfactorthat we have yet to include in the analysis.
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Thekeyfactorthen becomes how effectively these high-risk patients can be identified.
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We have provided that quality-of-knowledge technology is thekeyfactor.
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It is therefore probably akeyfactorin the population dynamics of many species.
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Thekeyfactordriving this transformation was not liberal land law but the international vanilla market.
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Having a "fabulous project officer" is viewed as akeyfactorin producing a successful report.
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Power is thekeyfactordetermining a council's position on the continuum.
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Thekeyfactor, it seems, is the relationship between the metre and the dissonance.
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So, midseason-ripening wheat is ruled out as akeyfactor.
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Communicating regularly with the network members was akeyfactorin maintaining this motivation.
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The experimental design may therefore have been akeyfactorin the lack of nonword priming.
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This is akeyfactorin developing and implementing the search method.
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Indeed, anatomical location was thekeyfactorthat determined the overall classification system.
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The congruence of objectives has been shown to be akeyfactorfor delegation.
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