The phrase "a less important influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or elements that have a lower level of significance or impact compared to others.
Example: "While the economic factors played a major role in the decision, there was also a less important influence from social trends."
Alternatives: "a minor influence" or "a secondary influence".
Others view the stock market's movements as a less important influence on the economy than factors like the level of unemployment, the value of homes and the pace of wage gains.
Such thinking, however, is widely challenged in academia, where the stock market's movements are often viewed as a less important influence on the economy than factors like the level of unemployment, the value of homes and the pace of wage gains.
A useful distinction can be made between primary pests, which first and principally affect the health of the tree, and secondary pests, which have a less important influence and usually affect trees already weakened by a predisposing factor.
In general, the signs and values of the observed thermal sensitivity are conditioned by more or less important influence of temperature on (1) energy position of the electronic states involved in radiative transitions and (2) their density-dependent population by the photogenerated charge carriers.
The model also highlights an important weakening role for pore diameter, but finds that crystal diameter has a less significant influence for strength.
Although diabetes duration has been reported to play an important role in patients with type 1 diabetes (12), the influence of diabetes duration seems to play a less important role in type 2 diabetes.
Unlike the wet lowland condition, change in temperature and precipitation and frequency of drought experienced in the past are less important in influencing farmers' perception of climate in the dry lowland.
As rates of external infection increase, colonisation becomes less important in influencing group size.
Our findings suggests that maternal educational level may be less important in influencing the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in blacks or Hispanics than it is in whites.
As adolescents grow, protective parental influences become less important and peer influences take precedence in adolescent's initiation of smoking.
Many experts believe that aerosol-producing pollution is lessening in industrialized countries as they place controls on emissions, and that in North America and Europe it may therefore become less important as an influence on climate and weather.
