major factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandfactor
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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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 ofmajorandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmajor factor
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Amajorfactoris education.
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Defining amajorfactorin plant evolution.
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The fourthmajorfactorhowever has changed.
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The instability of demand is amajorfactor.
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I think the onemajorfactoris the time issue.
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The mission role in famine relief was amajorfactor.
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Longevity on the list is amajorfactorin allocation.
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Sampling difficulties are amajorfactorimpeding such research.
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In arid areas, drought is likely to be amajorfactorlimiting seedling establishment.
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Commercial agriculture has been amajorfactorin deforestation in unsustainable areas.
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Here we encounter a secondmajorfactorin the demise of the traditional model of patient.
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First, personto-person infection was not amajorfactorin this outbreak.
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Onemajorfactorcontributing to this is that conservation investments reduce the effective area planted.
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An inability to perceive visual cues was identified as amajorfactorin communication breakdown.
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This strongly implicates stretch as amajorfactorin cone packing.
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This correlation strongly implicates stretch as themajorfactorin cone packing.
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The new globalized urgency of desiccation discourse was amajorfactorin this.
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In our sites, livestock grazing is themajorfactordegrading young trees.
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In fact, visual similarity was themajorfactorin the confusion of letters.
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In conclusion, similarity between letters is themajorfactoraffecting confusion between letter names.
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As in past elections, ethnicity was amajorfactorin the 2002 contest.
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Thus, temperature is left as themajorfactorinvolved in biotic turnover.
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Money has never been amajorfactoras regards progress; time has been themajorfactor.
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Nevertheless, the strong pound was amajorfactorif not themajorfactor.
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He cited technological progress, in particular railways and steamboats, as anothermajorfactorin the contemporary intensification of communications.
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