  We revisit standard arguments for hyperscaling of the spectrum when a
non-zero fermion mass is introduced to a gauge-fermion theory which is
conformal in the infrared limit. With some general assumptions, we argue that
the induced confinement scale will be significantly enhanced near the edge of
the conformal to confining transition. This enhancement can allow for the
fermion mass to be arbitrarily small compared to the confinement scale. This
scale separation may allow for apparent spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry
within the conformal window, which may be of interest for construction of
dilaton effective field theories in this regime.
