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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a main means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a primary method or way of achieving something.
Example: "In our research, we identified a main means of improving efficiency was through better communication."
Alternatives: "a primary method" or "a key way".
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The officials said the findings pointed to an inadequacy in programs that focus on abstinence among teenagers as a main means of preventing H.I.V. infection because they failed to take into account fully the risk of transmission in marriage.
Since successive Tory and Labour administrations started to squeeze the funds of museums from the Seventies onwards and New Labour abolished entry fees in 2001, exhibitions have become a main means of raising funds.
Before a mass exodus to the suburbs left hordes of Americans totally car-dependent, most people lived in cities and towns where feet served as a main means of transportation.
Furthermore, adjacency pair in the form of question-answer is a main means of situated learning.
The language arts program of the institution in study utilizes debate as a main means of developing students' oral communication.
Beluga's apps uses Push Notifications as a main means of communication, with SMS as a fallback, and users can enable or disable the alerts they get from the apps.
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This timing leaves the possibility that the plane's pilot was preoccupied with tuning the radio rather than looking out the window, in an area where the main means of avoiding collision is a technique called "see and avoid," just as the controller may have been preoccupied with a call to an employee in the airport's operations department.
The results show that when large parts of the sewage reach reservoirs, e.g. when they originate from the treatment plant or a trunk main, mean detection probabilities are 55 65%.
Particularly, the main institutional approaches consider 'great shocks' as the main means to trigger a change from an institutional structure/paradigm to another one (Gorges, 2001).
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
Fighting well was also the main means by which a man could acquire cattle and wives in the polygamous society.
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