The phrase "a common gauge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a standard measure or criterion that is widely accepted or used for comparison.
Example: "In our research, we used a common gauge to assess the effectiveness of various teaching methods."
Alternatives: "a standard measure" or "a shared benchmark".
(This is based on standard deviation, a common gauge of volatility).
Value-at-risk, a common gauge of the amount of risk a firm is taking by measuring the amount of money the firm could lose on a given day with a certain measure of confidence, skyrocketed to $151 million from $106 million for the fourth quarter of 2006.
The chart above, supplied by Julian Callow of Barclays Capital, shows the gap between nominal GDP growth and official interest rates, a common gauge of policy, for a group of big economies: America, Britain, Canada, China, the euro area, India and Japan.
A common gauge of the price sensitivity of a fixed income asset or portfolio to a change in interest rates.
Arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the southwestern frontier, a common gauge of how many people try to cross without papers, tumbled to 304,755 during the 11 months ended in August, extending a nearly steady drop since a peak of 1.6 million in 2000.
The study relied on body mass index (BMI), a common gauge of overweight and obesity.
The most common gauge of a stock's value is its price to earnings (P/E) ratio.
But between mid-2004 and the end of 2006, the growth in business output per hour outside agriculture, the most common gauge of worker efficiency, slowed to an annual rate of just 1.5%, on average.
Here are some common gauge numbers of steel used in making grills.
The most common gauge is 10-46.
BMI, the ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in metres, is a common, if imperfect, gauge of whether someone is over- or underweight.A person's BMI turns out to be hard to shift in the short term.
