Excess weight is increasingly viewed by scientists as a major contributory factor to cancer after smoking.
working conditions are not conducive to productivity; the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city; a contributory factor.
If this is the case, your urinary incontinence may be due to one of the following contributory factors.
His poor health was a contributory factor in his decision to retire.
What are the contributory factors that bring about fear?
Cervical ripening was a contributory factor in the mode of cephalic delivery.
Poor organization was certainly a contributory factor to the crisis.
Exercise may also have had a contributory factor in the deaths of Jim Fixx, the pioneer of jogging who dropped dead ona run aged 52, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams,49,who had a fatal heart attack on his exercise bike.
a contributory factor, cause, etc
