The phrase "a minimum benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a basic standard or level that must be met in a particular context, such as performance, quality, or requirements.
Example: "To ensure all candidates are qualified, we have established a minimum benchmark for test scores."
Alternatives: "a basic standard" or "a foundational criterion".
"More than half of the nation's nursing homes don't meet a minimum benchmark for staffing," Mr. Grassley said.
The board agreed to set a minimum benchmark for the greenhouse gas emissions cuts that projects must achieve, but not until 2016.
Negotiations between the national government and federal unions, which are meant to set a minimum benchmark for the provinces, also foundered.
The Better Work report said just 16 percent of apparel workers who are paid by the number of pieces they produce earned 300 Haitian gourdes for an eight-hour day, or about $6.90, a minimum benchmark the factories must offer such workers.
It requires that the stock outperform a minimum benchmark before earning a positive score, then accelerates the reward for beating or missing it.
As the researchers report online today in Nature, the efficiency of their device was above 10%, often seen as a minimum benchmark for commercial success.
The external QTA conducted among 4 providers in Kenya found an average score above the minimum benchmark, suggesting strong retention of skills.
Although the dramatic increase of explicitly scientific ideas, and the decrease in the frequency of mixed models and explicitly naïve models provide support for the effectiveness of the PD program, several teachers failed to meet a minimum competency benchmark (i.e., being able to explain evolutionary change free of alternative conceptions).
Try setting a realistic target number of publications for yourself that would be the minimum benchmark for success.
The case study involved 22 on-site dam surveys finding micro level physical and management inadequacies that indicates macro dam safety management policy performs far below the minimum benchmark in Vietnam.
By 2010/11, only 3/30 courses (10.0%%) were still below the minimum benchmark.
