The phrase "a useful benchmark for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a standard or point of reference that is helpful for comparison or evaluation in a specific context.
Example: "The study serves as a useful benchmark for assessing the effectiveness of new teaching methods in the classroom."
Alternatives: "a valuable reference for" or "an effective standard for".
"It's been difficult for the team to make consistent progress in the first four races," he said, "but I think returning to a circuit where we undertook two of the pre-season tests will give us a useful benchmark for our progress so far.
He said he intended his findings to be used as "a metric" that would offer investors a useful benchmark for comparison.
That start date is a useful benchmark for measuring the plan's inadequacy.
Mayor Cory A. Booker welcomed the findings, saying the statistics were a useful benchmark for measuring the failures and successes of his administration.
Even the criterion of falsifiability, for example, is still a useful benchmark for distinguishing science and pseudoscience, as a first approximation.
As such, the vote on Bonds and Clemens provides a useful benchmark for how writers are handling the steroids issue — and how it may be affecting the vote on players for whom the evidence of steroids use is circumstantial at best.
In addition, the database represents a useful benchmark set for the development and evaluation of machine learning methods for classification or prediction of deleterious/neutral mutations.
"A national average might be a useful benchmark, but for an individual buyer or seller, it can be totally meaningless.
In addition, the aligned image dataset III provides a useful benchmark dataset for developing an automated plant organelle recognition/classification.
In addition, the database also represents a useful benchmark set for any researcher who wants to develop and evaluate a machine learning method for classification or prediction of deleterious/neutral mutations.
Or if someone wants to do a year abroad then we'd want a language at GCSE with grade A. So they are a really useful benchmark for us.
