strict limit

collocation in English

meaningsofstrictandlimit

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strict
adjective
uk
/strɪkt/us
/strɪkt/
strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do ...
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limit
noun
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/us
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/
the greatest amount, number, or level of something that is either possible ...
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(Definition ofstrictandlimitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, there is nostrictlimitbetween noisy and deterministic behavior.
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There is astrictlimit.
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The standard specifies astrictlimiton smoke emission.
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I suppose that that is astrictlimit.
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There will be astrictlimiton expenditure.
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Therefore, there must be astrictlimitfrom now on.
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Astrictlimitwill be placed on restructuring aid, and strengthened monitoring provisions will be introduced.
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I have always placed a verystrictlimitupon my own questions.
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For many years they have had astrictlimiton licence numbers.
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Each speaker on that occasion kept to astrictlimitof 15 minutes.
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There should be astrictlimiton individual donations to political parties.
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In our new senior classes 40 in a class is astrictlimit.
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There is astrictlimitto the pace at which they can be pursued.
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There are clear reasons in terms of health and the environment for placing astrictlimiton these emissions.
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One wants to help but there is astrictlimitto the lengths to which one can go.
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He can only run them within thestrictlimitthat they should provide considerable occupational therapy for the patients.
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The clause allows silver coin to be held as a security, subject to astrictlimitof £5,500,000.
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We must dare to setstrictlimitvalues for all types of plant, both old and new, large and small.
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There is astrictlimiton how far we can go towards achieving the ideal in this area.
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Is not the problem that the institutions are limited not by astrictlimitbut by a vague limit?
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But it is only in very hard cases that thisstrictlimitwould be applied by local authorities.
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I agree that under the system of objection there is astrictlimitabout what can happen at the end of the day.
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Certainly, thestrictlimitthat has been imposed on the number of children allowed into grammar schools has been a cause of great concern.
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We undertook instead to provide fresh legislative authority far such powers as were still required and to put astrictlimiton their use.
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It is one of the old-fashioned reservoirs where there is astrictlimitto the kind of recreational provision that could be carried out.
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