Sentence examples for a common unit from inspiring English sources

We need a common unit for measuring the goods achieved by health care.

The pint has been a common unit of measure in Great Britain since the 14th century.

The idea is to translate human demands on the environment into a common unit, so they can be added up.

His way of doing so was to bring together that part of geographical Europe that was democratic into a common unit by knitting its economies together.

A common unit of electric current is the ampere, a flow of one coulomb of charge per second, or 6.2 × 1018 electrons per second.

The treaty called for a common unit of exchange, the euro, and set strict criteria for conversion to the euro and participation in the EMU.

The Noh flute music is frequently related to the taiko stick-drum rhythm, so they can be considered a common unit rather than separate parts.

REUTERS American Midstream Prices at Top End of Range | American Midstream Partners' initial public offering of 40.6 percent of the company has priced at $21 a common unit, hitting the high end of its announced range.

By its reckoning, this requirement would be met by the typical rural Indian spending 15 rupees a month at 1960-61 prices.Mr Ravallion and his team converted rupees, pesos and rupiah into a common unit of purchasing power.

In fact, the Seventh Symphony crystallises a conspectus of a compositional technique that later composers like Elliott Carter, George Benjamin, and countless others, would employ: so called "metric modulation", in which you use a common unit of musical time to elide from one speed to another.

Second, even if assorted environmental pressures could be aggregated in the way footprinters advocate, WWF's predictions would still look mysteriously gloomy.In principle, there is nothing wrong with trying to come up with a common unit of environmental pressure, provided the simplification is useful rather than misleading.