unknown factor

collocation in English

meaningsofunknownandfactor

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unknown
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈnəʊn/us
/ʌnˈnoʊn/
not known ...
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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 ofunknownandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is anotherunknownfactor.
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Theunknownfactoris revaluation.
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That is the firstunknownfactor.
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There is anunknownfactorhere.
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This, of course, is the question mark—theunknownfactor.
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This is an importantunknownfactorin considering postwar reconstruction.
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The thirdunknownfactorin the situation is production.
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In the first place it is a completelyunknownfactor.
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They are in difficulties because of someunknownfactor.
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It puts into the equation a completelyunknownfactor.
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It is anunknownfactorthat needs to be identified.
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Because of thisunknownfactor, important research continues.
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It is worth mentioning an alternative interpretation: that anunknownfactoris driving both the loss of neurofilament and change in cell size.
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One majorunknownfactorwill be the climate of business confidence.
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Theunknownfactoris bound to be considerable when investing in computery.
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Every one of these is to a certain extent anunknownfactor.
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The air is a new and anunknownfactorin any future war.
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The three-day week will have put up unit costs by anunknownfactor.
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The borough council was aware that the groundwater levels were anunknownfactorin the proposal.
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Until the chairman-designate has been identified, this kind of consideration remains anunknownfactor.
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It is anunknownfactorwith which we have always to reckon.
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Certainly, sending things to the wrong address is by no means anunknownfactorin this sort of situation.
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No one will dispute that the greatestunknownfactorin the whole of medicine is the original cause of cancer.
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Anotherunknownfactorwhich makes assessment impossible is the localities in which the mills to be closed down are situated.
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In thisunknownfactorof manpower to be displaced, we come to the crux of the trouble building up on the railways.
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