Sentence examples for as a benchmark year from inspiring English sources

Taking 1990 as a benchmark year and with targets set for 2050, aviation has been given special treatment, allowing its emissions to actually rise by 120%.

"A grand year for merlot vines," a "benchmark year".

Researchers line things up so that the model yields the same output as a real benchmark year.

Then there's the problem of context, particularly the fact that the CDC study used 2010 as its benchmark year, a peak moment of unemployment in an economic downturn that most economists have called the worst since the Depression.

I certainly liked it that way so I used that figure as a benchmark for years.

Fiorilli said that the commission and Eurostat use 1995 as the benchmark year for calculating the impact of GNI figures.

They use two consecutive years of data, the first year as a benchmark to find such top authors, and the second year to examine the top authors performance.

The Rio Tinto-Nippon agreement is regarded as a benchmark for the current year, prompting the other two mining giants BHP Billiton and Brazil's Vale to clinch similar contracts with other steel mills.

For perspective, consider that among large-cap blend stock mutual funds (funds that should use the S.&P. 500 as a benchmark) with a 25-year record, not one had an annualized return of greater than 12 percent over the past 10 or 15 years.

In 2008, the EU said it would unilaterally cut carbon emissions by 20percentt by 2020 as compared to the earlier benchmark year of 1990.

Companies typically hold up pay from previous years as a benchmark, but just how this paycheck stacks up against, say, a company's earnings or stock market performance is rarely laid out.