contributing factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontributeandfactor
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contribute
verb[I or T]
uk/kənˈtrɪb.juːt/us/kənˈtrɪb.juːt/
to give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with ...
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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 ofcontributeandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Onecontributingfactorwas the guilds' omnipresence.
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A majorcontributingfactoris, of course, aging populations.
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Another potentialcontributingfactoris diminished general processing capacity.
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Yet anothercontributingfactorwas also at play.
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I suggest frequency as one possiblecontributingfactor.
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Distance, or rather the lack of it, may be acontributingfactorto this grammaticalization process.
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A developmental perspective does not require that experiential history be the onlycontributingfactor.
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Onecontributingfactorto that result was surely the temporary weakness of their most appealing frame.
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The reapportionment of 1890 was anothercontributingfactorto the electoral changes of the 1890s.
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An importantcontributingfactorwas the legal prescription trials between 1965 and 1967.
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Thus, astrocyte dysfunction appears to be a majorcontributingfactorto epileptogenesis.
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It is debated whether inflammation is acontributingfactorto disease or simply a consequence.
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That is acontributingfactor.
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There is anothercontributingfactor.
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Indeed, these results suggest that older siblings are a very importantcontributingfactorto the process of second dialect acquisition.
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I argue that the maincontributingfactorto this contrast has to do with which language code these commercials utilize.
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I think de facto all this e-commerce stuff, all the information revolution around it, is an importantcontributingfactor.
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So, at first reckoning, it seems that spelling pronunciation could be acontributingfactorin yod deletion.
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Normative social values pervasive in the country regarding proper male and female behaviour are also acontributingfactor.
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A small frequency of the modifiers extant in the club stocks may also be acontributingfactor.
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Our central contention is that this nonlinear "escape dynamics" could be acontributingfactorin observed currency crises.
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This indicates that the biggestcontributingfactorin obtaining a 'slow' rating is the added graphic content.
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Acontributingfactorto the efficiency of the sterile insect technique is the release of only sterile males.
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