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The phrase "and only secondarily" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is of lesser importance or relevance compared to the primary focus.
Example: "The project aims to improve efficiency, and only secondarily, to reduce costs."
Alternatives: "and to a lesser extent" or "and as a secondary consideration".
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The concept of the chapters of "Other People's Houses" was thematic and only secondarily chronological.
The study attributed families' difficulty affording food mostly to the dire state of the Palestinian economy, and only secondarily to the closings as such.
The phone-hacking scandal, as the name implies, is primarily about how the information was obtained, and only secondarily about the nature of that information.
But for a country that is primarily a civilisation state and only secondarily a nation state, it is little more than an inappropriate cliche.
Judging by Senate and Lipschultz, "Boston Public" accepts the common belief that teaching basically consists of entertaining students and only secondarily imparting knowledge.
Presumably the story would have ended there; maybe it was a book about King and Wonder and only secondarily about the narrator, whom Scott-Heron called "the artist".
Being a common alloy, pewter has been primarily utilitarian and only secondarily ornamental, being used where the precious metals were too expensive.
I don't know why I thought of that now, except perhaps because it is easy to believe in such moments that water was made primarily for blessing, and only secondarily for growing vegetables or doing the wash.
Just as Sischy's personal mutedness is the byproduct of an Orwellian sense of cultural crisis, so her vision of contemporary art is shaped first by societal concerns and only secondarily by aesthetic concerns.
As owners of an apartment for 25 years across the street to the north, our first consideration is to prevent the armory from collapse and only secondarily to restrict the use of the salvaged structure.
First, there is the American general, David Petraeus, the first man in a US uniform who sees the tangle of Iraq as primarily a political issue and only secondarily military.
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