The phrase "a substantial driver of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant factor or influence that contributes to a particular outcome or situation.
Example: "In recent years, technological advancements have been a substantial driver of economic growth."
Alternatives: "a major contributor to" or "a significant factor in".
There's a long history of assertions that clouds can be a substantial driver of climate change, distinct from their clear potential to amplify or blunt (depending on the type of cloud) a change set in motion by some other force.
Provided in a new paper from London's Center for Economic Research, the analysis offered by George Graetz and Guy Michaels of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics, respectively, offers some of the first rigorous macroeconomic research and finds that industrial robots have been a substantial driver of labor productivity and economic growth.
"As with other leading Internet companies, like eBay and Amazon, we believe this significant international exposure has been and can continue to be a substantial driver of top-line growth," Mahaney wrote in a research note this month.
When taken with the community need to limit their use, the net effect for a developer is a limited return on investment, which has often been cited as a substantial driver of reduced effort in this area.
Although γδT cells exhibit some characteristics of adaptive immunity, they lack the antigen specificity of classical αβT cells 11, instead their functions are predominantly stress surveillance in response to signals from their surrounding microenvironment and such stress signals are a substantial driver of immune responses 12.
Consumption is growing more rapidly than any other part of the economy, and it is a very substantial driver for the whole economy.
Indirect costs remain a substantial cost driver and outline the importance of estimating indirect costs, when estimating the total costs of repatriation.
And then, reflecting the financial troubles of the smaller teams as a whole, there is a substantial number of drivers who pay for their seats, although they all earn a salary of varying sizes out of that figure.
It is also possible, however, that the seemingly-simple requirement to visit the licensing office or pass a vision test administered by a healthcare provider might deter a substantial proportion of drivers from attempting to renew their license in the first place.
Since a substantial proportion of cancer driver genes are over-expressed in tumors, identified intron retentions in those up-regulated genes may suggest a biological role to neutralize over-expression in tumors.
Even by Frank Bruni's own statistics for major cities, we might increase bike riding to only 2 percent or somewhat higher, inconveniencing a substantial majority of car drivers by carving out bike lanes and eliminating parking spaces.
