primary reason
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandreason
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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reason
noun
uk/ˈriː.zən/us/ˈriː.zən/
the cause of an event or situation or something that provides an excuse ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandreasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theprimaryreasonis the long civilization lifespan and short usage of radio technology.
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This logical difficulty in selecting between theories is theprimaryreasonfor their proliferation.
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But is access to women to reproduce children theprimaryreasonfor power?
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Theprimaryreasonfor such attrition was that families moved away.
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Aprimaryreasonmay be that physicians disagree with the recommendations.
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However, in this case theprimaryreasonfor code-mixing is pedagogical.
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In doing so, they ignored oneprimaryreasonhe wanted to go there - its ongoing cultural dynamism.
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Theprimaryreasonfor the exclusion is that the fees are not assessed on the amount of assets under management.
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Nonetheless, security in old age was cited as theprimaryreasonfor childbearing among 58% of women in the sample.
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Dropout rate was 33% for sertraline and 49% for nortriptyline; adverse effects were theprimaryreasonfor dropout.
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Of those centers using continuous flow, the unavailability of pulsatile pumps is cited as theprimaryreasonfor its use.
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The strike-accounts we have seen above make it clear that wages were theprimaryreasonfor strikes.
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All subjects reporting more than one reason (96 %, n=50) were asked to indicate theprimaryreason.
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Over a third of respondents indicated that theprimaryreasonfor owning forestland was that it was part of the farm, while 10% indicated that the primary reason was investment.
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That is theprimaryreason.
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Myprimaryreasonfor supporting this initiative.
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Theprimaryreasonis straightforward and economic.
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But it is theprimaryreason.
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Theprimaryreasonfor that is inflation.
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Theprimaryreasonfor regular, even daily, moving of the hurdles was to ensure that the sheep spent the night on uninfected ground.
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Comments from farmers also suggested that theprimaryreasonthey participated in the project was to increase legume production and child nutrition.
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This is aprimaryreasonwhy few groups attempt this kind of measurement, and why ionic selectivity data for connexin channels are not more common.
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This is an encouraging finding because theprimaryreasonfor referral in most cases was that children were at risk of requiring substitute care.
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Aprimaryreasonfor this is that introducing complex index terms increases the diversity of index terms, thus increasing mismatches between the index terms.
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