FACTORS in a Sentence

Learn FACTORS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
150 example sentences for FACTORS, such as:
1. The two factors are directly linked.
2. A child's development is dependent on many factors.
3. Gender roles are often conditioned by cultural factors.
4. A variety of factors come into play when choosing an employee.
5. There are a number of factors at play in the current recession.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FACTORS
factor
 n.  an abstract part of something
 n.  any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  It reminded him that unforeseen factors operate in the evolution of immortality.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
2  But, first of all, I must keep you in touch with some of the other factors in the situation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
3  These were all factors which had to be taken into consideration, and yet none of them got quite to the heart of the matter.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
4  "Doing business in the village with a party of factors," replied the lady as she conducted her guests to the drawing-room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  That a criminal was reared among male factors mitigates his fault in our eyes.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
6  Puns are sometimes serious factors in politics; witness the Castratus ad castra, which made a general of the army of Narses; witness: Barbari et Barberini; witness: Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram, etc.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
7  Here the factor who had been walking on the barin's other side put in a word.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  "Quite so, Constantine Thedorovitch," replied the factor.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
9  But the assignment of these various meanings to the factor does not yield results which accord with the historic facts.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
10  The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
11  Only then, expressing known historic facts by equations and comparing the relative significance of this factor, can we hope to define the unknown.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
12  This equation does not give us the value of the unknown factor but gives us a ratio between two unknowns.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
13  But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
14  There is Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who is also an unknown factor, and there are one or two other neighbours.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
15  And yet this new factor must surely arrest his attention and renew his interest.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Example Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  To some degree I think that's right, but there are other factors which affect the situation.
2  However, it seems reasonable to assume that pragmatic factors in comprehension will also be present in production.
3  Financial factors should not constrain doctors from prescribing the best treatment for patients.
4  A variety of factors come into play when choosing an employee.
5  Low birth weight may be caused by external factors , such as smoking during pregnancy.
6  A combination of factors may be responsible for the increase in cancer.
7  This leads to the establishing of a model which attempts to identify and compare growth factors for the two business groups.
8  A number of factors have combined to create this difficult situation.
9  The rise in crime is mainly due to social and economic factors.
10  Gender roles are often conditioned by cultural factors.
11  There are a number of factors at play in the current recession.
12  Economic factors determine the progress which a society can make.
13  A child's development is dependent on many factors.
14  In the summer months a different set of climatic factors come into play.
15  The two factors are directly linked.