major hurdle

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandhurdle

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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hurdle
noun
uk
/ˈhɜː.dəl/us
/ˈhɝː.dəl/
a frame or fence for jumping over in ...
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(Definition ofmajorandhurdlefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Onemajorhurdlein investigating an outbreak caused by a common organism is differentiating those cases associated with the outbreak from background cases.
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Simply surviving at birth was amajorhurdle.
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Onemajorhurdlefor applying this method includes the necessity for identifying control parameters.
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Future studies attempting to examine spousal caregiver fatigue will have to overcome themajorhurdle that the most distressed patients drop out in short order.
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The optical flow methods currently under investigation for this purpose are far more computationally intensive and less robust than the path planner and remain themajorhurdleto be overcome.
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Most importantly, subtle properties of exponentiations in finite fields are amajorhurdleto overcome in adapting the technique of evaluating polynomials at random points to our variant.
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Amajorhurdlein the field is extending on the data generated using cell lines into human tumours in order to validate the findings observed in tissue culture experiments.
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He has stumbled on yet anothermajorhurdle.
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Smaller technicalities could be eased if one had the opportunity, but one cannot overcome thatmajorhurdle.
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Themajorhurdleis often employing the first person because of all the administration that goes with running the pay-as-you-earn system.
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The second argument adduced against screening was that there is no laboratory or clinical treatment protocol, but that hardly seems amajorhurdle.
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The one-third threshold is not amajorhurdleand it is not obstructive—it is reasonable.
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That is amajorhurdlewhich we should not be willing to accept.
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That was the firstmajorhurdle, but it was successfully overcome.
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In such circumstances, even concessionary bus fares are amajorhurdleevery week for a family with two or three children.
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Now your beloved euro has failed; it has failed politically at its firstmajorhurdle.
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There is still amajorhurdleto overcome in explaining to ordinary parents the most effective means to use.
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It is amajorhurdlethat warrant applications should have to be so authorised.
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Treatment costs are amajorhurdle, which often inhibits prompt access to anti-malarials.
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It now looks, however, as if it is finance that is themajorhurdleover which we have to get.
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