The phrase "a limit that was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a boundary or restriction that existed in the past.
Example: "There was a time when a limit that was imposed on our spending forced us to be more creative with our budget."
Alternatives: "a boundary that existed" or "a restriction that was in place".
The hand-produced nature of these shikomi-e limited the scale of their production, a limit that was soon overcome by genres that turned to mass-produced woodblock printing.
The F.D.I.C.'s standard deposit insurance covers amounts up to $250,000 per account, a limit that was raised from $100,000 before the financial crisis.
By a bull of 1586 he defined the Sacred College of Cardinals, setting the number of cardinals at no more than 70, a limit that was not exceeded until the pontificate of John XXIII (1958 63).
Photons propagating within the medium far from the fiber face do not contribute to the collected reflectance intensity and were terminated at a hemispherical limit from the fiber face of 10 d fib μ s ′ ; a limit that was confirmed to not influence model outputs for the range of optical properties investigated in this study.
Excitation and emission photons propagating within the medium far from the fiber face do not contribute to the collected fluorescence intensity and were terminated at a hemispherical limit from the fiber face of 10 d fib μ s ′ ; a limit that was confirmed to not influence model outputs for the range of optical properties investigated in this study.
That is not necessarily within the context of a limit, that is just a policy choice," he said.
Last week, Mr. Spitzer said he would stop accepting political contributions greater than $10,000, a limit that is far below what the state law allows.
These dynamic adjustments to the muscles' needs occur up to a limit that is twice as high in the athlete as in the untrained individual.
But he is also discovering that austerity cannot be pushed past a limit that is determined by voters, whether they are violently rioting in Athens or marching peacefully in Lisbon.
So you drive to a limit that is just below the ultimate slip angle the tyres can generate.
Machine-like repeatability and irreplaceable singularity, for Derrida, are like two forces that attract one another across a limit that is indeterminate and divisible.
