The phrase "as yardstick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a standard or measure against which something is compared or assessed.
Example: "The company's performance this quarter will serve as a yardstick for future evaluations."
Alternatives: "as a benchmark" or "as a standard".
In terms of content, Kumin relies on her favorite quadruped as yardstick, referring more than once to "the last two horses of our lives".
So the message to Andy Burnham is stop strangling the life out of the UK's commercial TV industry, remembering that in this country at least the BBC is there all the time as yardstick to keep product placement honest.
The size of the obtained (partial) graph of the Facebook social network has been adopted as yardstick for the uniform sampling process.
In the following we consider the uniform sample and the community structure unveiled by the LPA as yardstick for our investigation.
The reader must also be warned that an initial account of semantic information as meaningful data will be used as yardstick to outline other approaches.
To keep health needs as yardstick to determine effective health and humanitarian priority investments, is challenging.
They looked as long as yardsticks.
Three-quarters of companies include blood pressure, cholesterol and tobacco use as yardsticks.
These stars, cepheids, are considered "standard candle" stars of known brightness that can serve as yardsticks for cosmic distances.
They found three pulsating stars called Cepheid variables, typically used as yardsticks to measure distance, that are at approximately the same distance from the sun: 300,000 light-years.
What Dr. Shapley had done, using Cepheids variable stars —as yardsticks, was to plot the distances to globular clusters, or "star swarms," all over the sky.
