"Age is not a major factor in water main breaks," Mr. Ryan said.
But admissions officers say that the off-campus interview, like its on-campus counterpart, is not a major factor in their decision.
"The Cloudscape code is not a major factor in I.B.M.'s overall platform strategy," said Mike Gilpin, an analyst at Forrester Research, an Internet marketing firm.
As for hospital waiting lists, the number of asylum seekers is not a major factor: the NHS treats millions of people each week.
Health care institutions claim the advertising serves an educational purpose, but I found it is not a major factor in consumers choosing a hospital.
Two large studies found that dietary fiber is not a major factor in the development of colon polyps, the precursors of cancer.
Fuels made from algae oil burn more cleanly than fossil fuel, but preventing climate change is not a major factor in the Pentagon's calculations.
Sufficiently air-entrained HSC mixes demonstrate significant improvement in salt frost scaling resistance and the characteristics of air-void system is not a major factor.
Conclusion: Our finding indicates that the 5HTR2A receptor gene polymorphism is not a major factor in the genetic susceptibility to BPAD in Singaporean Chinese.
And this cruelty would be gratuitous: While the United States does have a long-run budget problem, Social Security is not a major factor in that problem.
Their research suggests that variations in the stringency of national systems of securities regulation across Europe is not a major factor in determining where and how European issuers access capital markets.
