low tolerance

collocation in English

meaningsoflowandtolerance

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low
adjective
uk
/ləʊ/us
/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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tolerance
noun
uk
/ˈtɒl.ər.əns/us
/ˈtɑː.lɚ.əns/
willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve ...
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(Definition oflowandtolerancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Also, there is alowtoleranceto crop damage in ornamental crops as the whole plant is marketed.
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In addition, it poses a severe challenge to apple growers facing a complex of pests and alowtolerancefor damage.
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Plants withlowtolerancehad a high biomass conversion ratio, reflecting the high cost in plant biomass required to produce each unit of aphid biomass.
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In fact,lowtolerancefor externalizing problems may account for the decreasing trend in externalizing problems for girls found in the current study.
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Modern high-yielding varieties are also reported to showlowtoleranceto the competition from pests and to respond with high yield losses.
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This is encouraging for biological control in ornamentals, where prevention of pest establishment is important, due to the extremelylowtoleranceto pest presence on ornamental crops.
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This species exhibits particularlylowtolerancefor swallowing seeds.
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They have alowtolerancefor spin or rampant emotionalism.
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Some phreatophytes have alowtolerancefor salt, indicating freshwater.
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This instrument evaluates whether patients tend to catastrophize their bodily sensations, are oversensitive towards autonomic sensations, tend to consider their body as weak and havelowtolerancefor physical discomfort.
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She also maintained an extremelylowtolerancefor facial hair of any kind.
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He has an extremelylowtolerancefor alcohol, and drinks milk instead.
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Their downside is that they have alowtolerancefor damage.
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He is a great cook and has alowtoleranceof alcohol.
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It has alowtolerancefor other shrews in its home range.
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Keeley claims that part of his success is due to carefully selecting electronic components withlowtolerance.
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Thriving best on limestone-derived soils or heavy clays, mangeao requires good drainage and haslowtoleranceof drought conditions.
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There is general support for this given the high standards of the school andlowtolerancetowards blatant misbehaviour.
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Chuck, who has an aversion to violence and alowtolerancefor pain, unwittingly enters a world of people willing to do violence to him.
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Exactly how these species (or their ancestors) have managed to colonize the islands is not obvious as amphibians generally havelowtoleranceto sea water.
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He was noted forlowtoleranceof dissent and promoting the theme that protest was not enough, but required economic productivity as well.
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Their larvae (ammocoetes) have alowtolerancefor high water temperatures, which may explain why they are not distributed in the tropics.
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Many plants have an extremelylowtoleranceto salt water and for that reason a significant amount of vegetation along the coast died.
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This species also has alowtoleranceto drought conditions as compared to other species with the same growth habit from the same geographical region.
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