threshold

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"If much younger people are being affected, why is the threshold so high for us to be diagnosed and diagnosed at an early stage? It just is unfathomable to me."

From BBC

The material can be fairly quickly enriched to the 90% threshold needed for weapons-grade uranium.

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"A full file of evidence was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service, who determined the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges. Following this advice, the investigation was closed in May 2019."

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"Officers and staff will still be tied up monitoring incidents that do not meet the criminal threshold, at a cost in time and resources," added shadow home secretary Chris Philp.

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As a rule, wandering souls were never able to cross the threshold into Clare’s cottage unless they were invited.

From Literature