The phrase "a likely contributor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing potential factors or individuals that may have played a role in a particular outcome or situation.
Example: "The recent changes in policy are a likely contributor to the increase in productivity among employees."
Alternatives: "a probable factor" or "a possible cause".
Immune dysfunction is a likely contributor to the increased risk of disease at this time.
Lack of breastfeeding was a likely contributor to excess mortality among HIV-exposed children.
A likely contributor to pelvic floor disorders is injury and degradation of connective tissue components such as collagen and elastin, leading to weakening of the pelvic floor.
Referrals to other physicians increased by 106 percent, which the authors said is a likely contributor to recent increases in expensive and often ineffective spine surgeries.
Franz Adlkofer, a scientist at the Verum Foundation in Munich, Germany, who led an international study that did find evidence of DNA damage induced by cell-phone radiation, says genetic variability is a likely contributor.
"The fact that drivers have little or no confidence that they will be caught when breaking these laws is a likely contributor to the problem and it is sadly the case that every day most road users see other drivers brazenly using their handheld phones when in control of a vehicle – a sight which should be a thing of the past.
A likely contributor to the intensity of Sandy, they said, was that surface temperatures in the western Atlantic Ocean were remarkably high just ahead of the storm — in places, about five degrees Fahrenheit higher than normal for this time of year.
The importance of the flavivirus prM protein in affecting the host cell permissibility is only beginning to be explored with a recent demonstration of a S139N substitution in the prM protein as a likely contributor of increased microcephaly occurrences in the ZIKV outbreaks in French Polynesia and the Americas60.
A likely contributor to significant cell death during cardiac cell therapy is hypoxia/anoxia.
Placement of fluorine group on the alkyl chain of 4-[18F]FEBZA may be a likely contributor towards enhanced defluorination.
Plasma albumin concentration is a negative acute phase reactant, decreasing in critical illness, with acute inflammation, and in connection with major surgical procedures where inflammation is a likely contributor.
