The phrase "a high benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a standard or point of reference that is set at a high level for comparison or evaluation.
Example: "The company's commitment to sustainability has set a high benchmark for its competitors in the industry."
Alternatives: "a high standard" or "a lofty goal".
The duo's debut record, Pan-O-Rama, released almost a decade ago, set a high benchmark for the post-millennial techno LP, paving the way for a spirit of adventurism in the genre while putting Anja Schneider's Mobilee imprint on the map.
These Scottish deviations from the political norm set a high benchmark in the measurement of difference.
When Aho's crew sets sail in the Bermuda Race, they will have a high benchmark to shoot for.
But "their decision to bid or not to will decide the benchmark for the future and they will not want to set such a high benchmark".
"These were a good set of figures and they set a high benchmark for other oil and gas companies reporting later in the week," Tony Shepard, an analyst at Charles Stanley in London, said.
Disgraced will be subject to a separate production in Melbourne and Brisbane later this year, and its Australian premiere – in the hands of director Sarah Goodes – sets a high benchmark.
Government borrowing, then, could help set a higher benchmark for overall lending to Russia, Mr. Kudrin said.
Peter Wood set a higher benchmark a couple of decades ago when he founded Direct Line and then flogged it to RBSfor a princely sum.
The companies that have granted premium options recently have tended to put a higher benchmark on them than I.B.M.'s 10percentt.
Problems arose when the government set a higher benchmark price of $4.20 per million metric BTUs for Reliance Industries to sell to other customers.
Although this quality indicator was not designed to compare facilities with one another, additional analyses (not shown) revealed that our local facility's performance needed to improve, regardless of whether the national average, or a higher benchmark, was set as the target.
