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big
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Unfortunately, the next biggest contributor was Extras, and 286 all out looked very thin; until, that is, I.T.
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Contractors may be the biggest of all contributors .
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The group's flagship consultancy business was again its biggest contributor , delivering revenue of £47.3m, up 20 per cent.
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The technology is set up to register carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions, big contributors to poor air quality.
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A 19 percent slump in the value of sterling against the Hong Kong dollar was a big contributor .
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Because they are not big campaign contributors while those who profit from the present system are.
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Tourism is our second biggest contributor - after North Sea oil - to gross domestic product.
important
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A reduced fibre content of the diet on its own might be an important contributor to the development of colonic cancer.
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Emotional interaction using ideas is therefore an important contributor to creative and flexible thinking.
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Water added to the oceans from melting of land-based ice is the other important contributor to the predicted increase in sea level.
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Order and quiet are important contributors to a good learning environment.
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Social cohesion is the most powerful defence against madness, the most important contributor to mental health.
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In addition to its role in conserving heat, double, glazing is an important contributor to the reduction of condensation.
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They are important contributors to the service delivery promised by the school to current and prospective pupils and parents.
individual
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It is even unclear whether the individual contributors see their particular expertise being subsumed into this new academic category.
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New branch managers were generally promoted from the ranks for competence and achievements as individual contributors .
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We have also been receiving wonderful gifts ongoing I hope from individual contributors .
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The new managers had to learn how to think, feel, and value as managers instead of as individual contributors .
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As individual contributors , they had worked closely with managers who held the very positions in which they now found themselves.
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But the subordinates accentuated the differences between the roles of individual contributor and manager that best fitted their interests.
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In spite of their established qualifications as individual contributors , many new managers never adjust successfully to managerial responsibilities.
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But the traditional source of big political money continued to be individual contributors .
large
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Britain also is the largest contributor of heavy metals, copper, cadmium, lead, to the North Sea. 3.
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Westlands, and other Valley agribusiness interests, are politically powerful and large campaign contributors .
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The momentum thrust is a much larger contributor to the overall thrust than the pressure thrust.
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The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
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Well over half of profit still came from overseas, and marine paint and powder coatings were narrowly the largest contributors .
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And in an electoral system dominated by money, that often means the short-term interests of their largest campaign contributors .
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Both books are anthologies of materials by a large number of contributors .
main
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Emigration Emigration and tourism have long been the main contributors to the economy of Madeira, emigration being the older.
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The firms participating in this new company are among the main contributors to Conservative Party funds.
major
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For example, although industry is often considered as a major contributor to smog, this may not always be the case.
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The process causes leaks and blockages around the system, and is a major contributor to pump failure.
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B has shown she can be a major contributor .
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A major contributor to M.I.'s success is the flexibility of the courses, both in style and structure.
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Some major contributors not only got to meet the president, they got to bring their friends.
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Nothing in this article negates the evidence that poverty itself is a major contributor to ill-health.
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Westbrook has been a major party contributor , and he chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 1993-1994.
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As far as we know, no other Esquire contributors can make this claim.
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Water added to the oceans from melting of land-based ice is the other important contributor to the predicted increase in sea level.
political
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Recently, for example, Clinton held a news conference to explain what he had been doing vis-a-vis political contributors .
regular
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The Friends started a list of regular contributors and nowadays get donations from more than 55 percent of their subscribers.
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Among them were a score of painters who were regular contributors to the Salon exhibitions.
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The core of regular contributors are essential here, providing regular columns and continuity from issue to issue.
significant
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A significant contributor to this will be the Urengoy export pipeline.
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Technique errors were less significant contributors to measurement inaccuracies. 7.
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It is expected that these new launches will, in time, be significant contributors to the profit growth of this business.
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This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors .
single
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The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
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campaign
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Westlands, and other Valley agribusiness interests, are politically powerful and large campaign contributors .
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Seventeen of those guests were campaign contributors , documents show.
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And in an electoral system dominated by money, that often means the short-term interests of their largest campaign contributors .
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become
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She became a prolific contributor to magazines and newspapers, and began to have books and novels published.
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This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors .
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The other fallacy is that when people reach 65 they stop becoming contributors to the economy.
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The letter went to 800 of Durenberger's campaign contributors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Examiner contributor Bernard Gilbert is a writer and performer who acts carelessly in San Francisco.
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Ten federal researchers were listed as contributors, but seven of them quickly disavowed any connection with it.
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Thank you to all our contributors for being so prompt with all your articles.
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The most obvious contributor was indeed the organization.
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There is no invested fund, only promises of how much future contributors will be prepared to pay.
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Well over half of profit still came from overseas, and marine paint and powder coatings were narrowly the largest contributors.