primary factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandfactor
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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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 ofprimaryandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Our study shows that this is not theprimaryfactor.
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Is it commerce and industry or religion that should be taken as theprimaryfactor?
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Theprimaryfactoris the growth of vocabulary in the preschool years.
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Theprimaryfactoraffecting the number of kin in a network is kinship composition.
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Theprimaryfactorwas finance.
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That is theprimaryfactor.
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This interpretation suggests that overtly political institutional mechanisms did not operate as theprimaryfactorto block change.
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In this review we have suggested that the fetal genome is theprimaryfactorin initiating labour.
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Medical progress was theprimaryfactorthat made people more aware of the side effects of drugs.
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Theprimaryfactorin their communal reading was an intimacy and friendship built around a set of core political principles.
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These findings support insurers' assertions and evidence (9;11;13;17) that medical appropriateness is theprimaryfactorinfluencing coverage decisions.
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Therefore, it would not be erroneous to assert that education is aprimaryfactorfor household participation and institutional effectiveness.
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Money is not always theprimaryfactor.
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Power is aprimaryfactorin the cost of production.
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I think that education is aprimaryfactor.
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More than any architectural work, the completion of the harbour was theprimaryfactorin the eventual success or failure of a settlement.
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Pesticides, aprimaryfactorof increasing yield, are affected by trade liberalization, as tariffs and subsidies are reduced and import restrictions lifted.
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A description is aprimaryfactorin deciding the characteristic of a case in which items for classifying similar cases are described.
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People's working conditions are theprimaryfactorin the formation of their attitude to work, and that directly affects people's retirement age preferences.
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This structure is thus flexible enough to permitprimaryfactorsubstitution in response to changes in the relative prices of primary factors and fertilizer.
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Both interpretations could be true under different circumstances, but availability of alternative prey is rarely, if ever, considered as theprimaryfactordriving the observed dynamics.
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The authors concluded that it was the improvement in glycaemic control, rather than any specific therapy, which was theprimaryfactorresponsible for the reduced risk of complications.
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They argue that statistical differences in direct and indirect estimates should not be theprimaryfactor on which to make a decision whether to combine results.
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However, because our results were adjusted for group differences in nonverbal mental age, we cannot be certain that level of development per se is theprimaryfactorinvolved.
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