The phrase "a valuable benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a standard or point of reference that is considered important or useful for comparison or evaluation.
Example: "The study serves as a valuable benchmark for future research in this field."
Alternatives: "an important reference point" or "a significant standard".
This might sound like a dismal statistic, but it's also an opportunity – a valuable benchmark from which we can now improve.
In encapsulating the latest polling data in a timely manner, its forecasts provide a valuable benchmark, to which I and many others regularly refer.
"I have determined that disclosure of the aggregate intelligence budget reasonably could be expected to provide foreign intelligence services with a valuable benchmark for identifying and frustrating U.S. intelligence programs," Mr. Tenet said in an unclassified declaration.
This set of data provides a valuable benchmark for understanding wave loads on coastal bridges during a storm or hurricane.
This does not only provide a valuable benchmark for the distributed algorithms, but may also be a feasible option for small networks, where a central controller is indeed possible.
Findings raise awareness of the contamination status of mangrove forests in Hormozgan Province, provide a valuable benchmark for future comparisons in the area, and are important for the design of appropriate policies and long-term management of those ecosystems by local managers and the national authorities.
The chimpanzee data we present here thus provide a valuable comparative benchmark of the patterns of mtDNA and NRY variation to be expected in a society with extremely female-biased dispersal.
Specifically, understanding the marginal cost of stroke, i.e. those costs over and above normal expected medical care, can serve as a valuable cost benchmark that can be followed accurately over time.
To facilitate this valuable benchmark, the exact validation protocol including the exact random splits will be made publicly available.
These relationships not only furnish insights into how the various design variables influence the vibration frequencies, but they also provide valuable benchmark shear deformable plate frequencies upon supplying the corresponding CPT solutions.
