The phrase "and was one element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something was a part of a larger whole or a contributing factor in a situation.
Example: "The project was a success, and was one element of our overall strategy to improve efficiency."
Alternatives: "and was a component" or "and was a factor".
This secret nuclear retrieval mission in Prague, underwritten with $2 million from the United States and completed on Monday and Tuesday, was one element of a newly reinvigorated effort to secure nuclear material marooned by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
James Q . Wilson a professor emeritus at the University of California at Los Angeles, said that the complexity of the technical data and analysis was one element in deciding whether to wait for outside evaluation.
Prof Fu is an impressive man and had a remarkable grasp of Jewish history and religion but there was one element of Jewishness he seemed not to get: the jokes.
Carre said that France had recognized the missile threat and agreed that missile defense was one element of a broad response to this threat.
Our community benefits from the event economically and socially and it is one element that makes our community special and unique.
A big bank with a severe problem will hurt the stability of the financial markets and the global economy, and this is one element that should be considered".
The expression level of miR-183, a miRNA that inhibits invasion and metastasis in several types of malignancies, was consistently lower in infiltrative than nodular tumors and could be one element underlying the difference in invasiveness.
The idea is to present some of this information on your Traity profile and let it be one element that is interpreted by others as part of evaluating your reputation, much in the way reputation is weighed up offline.
The stories here are a sort of science fiction — I'm not a reader of science fiction, I'm not very interested in it — but they're usually based in a real world, and then there's one element that takes them into another realm and makes them not real.
