The phrase "set a hurdle" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when you want to describe something that is an obstacle or challenge. For example, "The steep learning curve for this new software has set a hurdle for our team to overcome."
Johnson-Thompson broke the British high jump record last week with 1.97m and also set a hurdles personal best.
Businesses are happy to borrow at high real rates, confident that they can still earn an even higher return.In a sense, then, the level of real interest rates sets a hurdle by which profitable projects should be judged.
This sets a hurdle on increasing the lanthanide concentration to shorten the ion ion distance to enhance the energy transfer process for the increased UC PL efficiency.
Analysts said Mr. Cherkasky had set a high hurdle, given the weakness in business insurance rates.
So while all the airlines allow upgrades from economy-class seats, some set a higher hurdle for the kinds of economy tickets you must buy to be upgraded.
The judge left open the possibility that some of the information, including Facebook postings and text messages, might come up at trial, but she set a high hurdle for the defense.
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.
All of the doctors set a similar hurdle: If more than 5% of patients suffered life-threatening bleeding, it would be difficult to prescribe Avastin widely for non-small cell lung cancer.
All subsequent experiments were performed by using high saturating IL-1β concentrations (≥ 1 ng/ml) in order to ensure complete pro-inflammatory activation of those cells and thus to set a high hurdle for modulation of IL-8 production by anti-inflammatory intervention.
He explained that the name William Beaver and its attendant innuendos "seem to set an intellectual hurdle — you get it or you don't".
