The phrase "alternative measures to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to additional, substitute ways of achieving a certain goal. For example, you might say: "We are exploring alternative measures to increase revenue."
"I've spent fair chunks of my own time over the last two decades working on alternative measures to GDP," he says "but I've come to regard the measurement debate as, in some ways being, another distraction.
The Bundesbank, the German central bank, has also reiterated its opposition to alternative measures to ease the pressure on vulnerable economies by allowing the E.C.B. to buy up those countries' bonds.
The analysis also looks at alternative measures to achieve the nZEB level.
To test the visual quality of the results, we use four of the quality measures proposed in [5], as alternative measures to the distribution.
While the preferred and safest option was to rescue the passengers in a single operation, "alternative measures" to complete the rescue operation are now being explored.
However, resistance genes can only be introgressed from sexually-compatible species, so breeders need alternative measures to introduce resistance traits from more distant sources.
This was the lowest claimant count score since 1975 — though the ONS is working on an alternative measure, to take into account the shift to "universal credit".
In this paper we apply to Spain a new methodology to obtain sustainable growth rates, as an alternative measure to potential growth.
The "share of migrants" is an alternative measure to assess whether the proportion of immigrants in a region per se has any effect on weekly wages.
to draft an alternative measure to help younger illegal immigrants have all but fizzled.
At the same time, several Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to reject an alternative measure to continue spending at current levels – a post-election signal that they, too, wanted to see cuts take effect.
