What is the largest lake in the world? Compare this to 'the biggest lake'. To my mind, the largest is the one with the greatest surface area, the biggest may have a smaller surface area but be deeper and therefore contain more water...and be 'bigger'. Of course, one could just as well assign the other way..but there IS a distinction. I think.
"Largest single" is not incorrect (think "this is the largest single cell"), it just has a different meaning. But I cannot at the moment conceive of a sentence with "the largest single contributor to". Therefore, in your examples, "the largest single contributor to" seems incorrect, although the full context could prove me wrong.
When referring to a list of number is largest or biggest correct? For example, I want to find the biggest number in an array. Or should it be the largest number. Finally, would either biggest or
In mathematics, when referring to pure numbers is largest or biggest ...
What about the second pie chart? In the second pie chart the largest portion is less than 50%. Can I still consider the group "c" as majority in it? Based on the Cambridge Dictionary it seems ambiguous: (1) the larger number or part of something, (2) more than half of a total number or amount.
word usage - Can we say "majority" to the largest portion when it ...
The largest share of the region's cost estimate total belongs to projects classified as "long term", which accounts for 9% of the region's projects and 47% of the region's cost estimate total. While the statements above are numerically accurate and precise, I feel they are a bit clunky and bloated.