Sentence examples for approached the upper limit from inspiring English sources

Although water samples were highly transparent, turbidity approached the upper limit of class AA/A/B water quality standards in Connecticut (5 NTU over ambient levels; State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection 2013 regulations for Clean Water Act purposes).

Median Bcl-XL expression in the OSCC tumour samples was 3450 [95% C.I. 3248 3705] which approached the upper limit of Bcl-XL expression in normal OCSE 95% C.I.; we defined this as borderline overexpression.

Fitch said it expected that by 2015 debt would now be "approaching the upper limit of the level consistent with the UK retaining its 'AAA' status".

The World Cup features many players who can cover a given distance swiftly, and a few players who can cover a given distance so swiftly that their speed approaches the upper limit of human athletic potential.

Electrochemical properties of new electrode material, synthetic diamond compacts with the boron (dopant) level approaching the upper limit, are studied for the first time.

The analytical criteria may be used for the design of monolith properties and experimental conditions so that the performance of the monolith approaches the upper limit defined by the external mass transfer controlled limit.

Equally significant is the finding that the modified processing of citric acid - polyethylenimine precursor mixtures could yield CDots of record-setting fluorescence performance, approaching the upper limit of being quantitatively fluorescent.

The share of real and interpolated estimates follows the same pattern for the four SHDI indicators: it increases over time to reach a maximum, and decreases when approaching the upper limit of 2017 (as interpolations are not possible at the extremes of the observation window).

For lower energy protons, the resonant frequencies mainly increase with magnetic latitude, gradually approaching the upper limit of the wave spectrum.

"We forecast gross general government debt to peak at 97% in 2015-16, approaching the upper limit of the level consistent with the UK retaining its AAA status," Fitch said.

For the case of (theta = 89^{circ}), the resonant frequencies are commonly high, approaching the upper limit of magnetosonic wave frequency spectrum adopted in this study, regardless of electron energy.