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Discover LudwigThe phrase "high barrier" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is difficult to overcome or surpass. For example, "The high barrier to entry in the field of medicine makes it difficult to become a doctor."
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If you're looking for "actual harm" you're setting a ridiculously high barrier.
The peer review system also tends to set a very high barrier for authors to publish truly novel findings.
That structure, currently used by Belo and many other media companies, forms a high barrier to hostile takeovers.
If the operators had taken an approach based on specific hazards, he said, "instead of having a meter high barrier, they might have had a 10-meter high barrier," although the actual tsunami was 14 to 15 meters high.
In suburban areas, Mr. Harris said, "high barrier to entry means building in New Canaan or Bronxville, where they don't want apartments at all.
Mr. Hafnawi, under heavy guard behind a high barrier, insisted that he was innocent and that his confessions to having helped the Israelis had been coerced.
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There is a shoulder-high barrier, a concrete wall.
The game took place on an indoor field surrounded by a waist-high barrier.
There is no fence beside the path, only a foot-high barrier of scattered stones and a few branches.
In the Green Zone, outside Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's canalside compound, one 15-foot-high barrier bears a far more contemporary message.
"Towns where the new restrictions make sense economically are now diminished," said Mr. Hollister, because of the extraordinarily high land costs in high-barrier-to-entry towns.
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