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‘Limits can be tolerable.’

[⟨det (plur limit.n)⟩ tolerable.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Performance hit within tolerable limits is acceptable.
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In the British National Corpus:

The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model, which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means, the costs of treatment, their prior efforts, or the demands made of their competitors.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Now he or she is drinking way over socially and legally tolerable limits.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Here allopathic medicines are given not to suppress the morbid symptoms but make the basic homoeocure comfortable by controlling the symptoms within the tolerable limits which varies from patient to patient.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In this way they established tolerable upper limits for a drinking water purification system.
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In Wikipedia:

Performances were further slowed by the need for frequent pauses to change the scenery, creating a perceived need for even more cuts in order to keep performance length within tolerable limits; it became a generally accepted maxim that Shakespeare’s plays were too long to be performed without substantial cuts.
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On a separate measure, the I – 35W bridge was rated “structurally deficient,” but was deemed to have met “minimum tolerable limits to be left in place as it is.
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In Wikipedia:

Performances were further slowed by the need for frequent pauses to change the scenery, creating a perceived need for even more cuts in order to keep performance length within tolerable limits; it became a generally accepted maxim that Shakespeare’s plays were too long to be performed without substantial cuts.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Having said that, it is clear that much more progress (fueled by considerably more investments) will be needed if we are to be successful in stabilizing the climate system within tolerable limits.
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In the British National Corpus:

Clearly, the basis of paternalism – that decisions concerning a particular person’s fate are better made for him than by him, because others wiser than he are more keenly aware of his best interests than he can be – conflicts with the notion of a right to self-determination, whereby a person is deemed entitled to make his own decisions concerning himself, within tolerable limits, free from the interference of others.
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In Wikipedia:

To maintain supply frequencies within tolerable limits during this process, demand must be reconnected at the same pace that generation is restored, requiring close coordination between power stations, transmission and distribution organizations.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The government’s efforts to bring down inflation to tolerable limits and curb runaway prices might have begun to bear some fruit.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The homestate operations are well within tolerable limits by producing low loss ratios.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Timothy Scully told me that both he and Owsley believed the tolerable limits of impurities to be on tenth of a percentage point (requiring 99.9 % purity) – far from the 50 percent figure of Michael Valentine Smith!
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In Wikipedia:

The political authorities were faced with a serious problem: how could they encourage writers to criticize and discredit the abuses of the Cultural Revolution without allowing that criticism to go beyond what they considered tolerable limits?
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Nevertheless, at wavelengths as low as 157 nm, which are useful for semiconductor manufacturers, the refractive index of calcium fluoride exceeds tolerable limits.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

What are the tolerable limits for this problem?
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In Wikipedia:

The 1965 bridge just north of downtown Saint Paul carrying a daily traffic volume of 148,000 vehicles over Cayuga Street and the BNSF Railway line was rated by DOT as meeting minimum tolerable limits in 2006.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I didn’t get everything exactly perfect while I was creating the color profile, but I was well within what it said were tolerable limits.
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Queried on 2013-05-20.