The phrase "a key yardstick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an important standard or measure for evaluating something.
Example: "Customer satisfaction is a key yardstick for assessing the success of our services."
Alternatives: "a crucial benchmark" or "an important measure".
Such a hit to the corporate income statement could potentially reduce each media giant's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- a key financial yardstick for media companies -- by 5percentt or more.
Their aim has been to extend Iran's "breakout capability"—the key yardstick of the time needed to produce enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon from the current estimate of a couple of months to at least a year, and to maintain it there for a decade or more.What did Iran hope to receive?
The main components of the deal struck in Lausanne plausibly succeed in extending Iran's "breakout capability"—the key yardstick of the time it would need to produce enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon from a couple of months currently to at least a year, and do so for a decade or more.
Key yardstick: cash flow from operations.
Over the decades, 0.7% has been repeatedly re-endorsed at international conferences, becoming a key rallying cry for aid activists and a common yardstick for the generosity of rich countries.
Consulting firms such as Marakon and Monitor tell bosses to pick just a few yardsticks, such as likely future sales of a key product.
Nevertheless, it is useful to consider how the raw samples compare, if only to provide an imperfect yardstick for interpreting the empirical analysis reported in Section 4. A key issue in this regard concerns the contribution to the Skill Stream made by the GSM and Employer Sponsored visa categories.
In 1997 Lipinski published a key paper identifying molecular features that appear to be found in orally available drugs [11] the Lipinski "rule of five" has since become the yardstick by which potential development compounds are judged.
Build a simple pendulum with string, a battery, and a yardstick for better understanding.
