major influence

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandinfluence

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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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influence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
us
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to ...
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(Definition ofmajorandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmajor influence

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These accounts, typically, were about events and things that continued to have amajorinfluencein their present life.
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For example, the underlying communication technique hasmajorinfluenceon the integrated application's functionality in terms of notification ordering, reliability or atomicity.
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This explains themajorinfluenceof temperature, shown by the methods of correlations.
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This affects the level of energy use and has amajorinfluenceon the 'business as usual' baseline solution.
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To start with, any such inference assumes, of course, that regulators have amajorinfluenceon observed bank capital-asset ratios.
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Although invoked at times, this line of reasoning did not have amajorinfluenceon the development of workers' compensation.
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A common belief is that inappropriate diet, high coffee intake, and psychological stress have amajorinfluenceon the occurrence of peptic ulcers.
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Axons have some intrinsic ability to organize sodium channels into diffuse patches, but myelinating glia have amajorinfluence.
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Themajorinfluenceof age on rhyme awareness appears to be direct, while also exerting indirect effects via letter knowledge.
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In contrast, in winter, temperature exerted amajorinfluenceon community compositions.
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This body of theory has exerted amajorinfluenceon the academic debate on the proper geographical extent of a monetary union.
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Males perceive that religion and their female partners do not have amajorinfluenceon their reproductive health attitudes.
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Her uncompromising work returned our focus to aspects of musical communication and was amajorinfluenceon the development of women in composition.
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Furthermore, the location of favelas has amajorinfluenceon the character of their networks.
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A more accurate interpretation is that, among electrostatically similar molecules, the steric potential distribution can have amajorinfluenceon activity.
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Parsons also wrote songs that have become amajorinfluenceon the way both country and rock music are played.
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These statements did not have amajorinfluenceon political developments, mainly because doctors' organizations were unwilling to accept the proposed changes (2).
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Such counties were also themajorinfluenceon national trends over the next thirty years.
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Themajorinfluenceof the 5th axis variance tends to level the repeatability at a high and common figure for the different locations.
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