The phrase "a low hurdle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor obstacle or challenge that is easy to overcome.
Example: "The requirements for this job are quite simple; it's really just a low hurdle for anyone with basic skills."
Alternatives: "a small obstacle" or "an easy challenge."
That may seem like a low hurdle, especially when Amazon's Prime membership costs $99 per year.
Mr. Bradley of J. P. Morgan said "they did a good job of clearing a low hurdle".
We set a low hurdle, it is said, which many sceptics clear with ease, and once over they seem to find the tentativeness of our enthusiasms, the Gwen John palette of our prayer, if not exactly congenial, then not unpleasant.
But it made clear that prosecutors went too far by pressing District Judge Melinda Harmon in Houston to set such a low hurdle for the jury to reach a guilty verdict in the case in 2002.
I do not want to get anyone into trouble, but when I rang Ms Creasy's office yesterday I found myself talking to someone who knew less about 90s indie music than I do – a low hurdle indeed.
And that raises a question that dogs almost every page of this novel: how can the man who wrote this fitfully entertaining book possibly be the same guy who every week presides over the funniest show on public radio (O.K., a low hurdle, but still, a funny show)?
"The end-of-March target date for achieving a political framework was meant to be a soft deadline -- a deliberately low hurdle that both sides would use to reassure their impatient domestic critics that a comprehensive deal was, in fact, achievable," wrote Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution on Monday.
But all that happened, of course, was that those managers were jumping over a ridiculously low hurdle instead of a sky-high one.
"The WA government could this afternoon put some drumlines in the water because it says there's an apparent serious threat level, and a very low hurdle to assess that, and not very transparent reasoning," she said.
That was a very low hurdle for managers of stock portfolios to clear, but they couldn't do it; the average domestic equity fund in Morningstar's database declined 10.2percentt.
To lock in their 1999 performance results and pocket their handsome fees (typically 20% of gains over and above a fairly low hurdle rate), will the hedges start to liquidate?
