Sentence examples for benchmark instead of from inspiring English sources

Like a mutual fund, an ETF gives you a small stake in a dozen or more companies at one time, but most ETFs are passively managed and follow a benchmark instead of trying to beat it.

Ratan Tata asked outside consultants to use international benchmarks, instead of hapless state industries.

Thus, to prevent a complete rejection of the pathway, it might make sense to broaden coarsen the recommendations and give benchmarks instead of detailed instructions.

The Graph500 benchmark instead measures the data analytics performance of supercomputers, in particular those for graphs, with the metric called traversed edges per second or TEPS.

And if you use Bebo's 2008 valuation of $850 million as a benchmark instead, Twitter would be worth $781 million.

(1) To get the updated benchmark dataset, instead of version 49.3 of the Swiss-Prot database, the version 55.3 released on 29-Apr-2008 was adopted.

We used the integrated form of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and decision tree (DT) as a benchmarking method instead of using DEA alone.

Another difference compared to the benchmark equations is that instead of using hours worked in the preceding year as a proxy for actual hours, we here assume full-time employment.

It is calling them "metrics" instead of "benchmarks," as they were called when the Bush administration resisted formal restrictions on its war spending.

More recently a benchmark calculation has been used instead of a NOAEL in the determination of an RfD.

The target users preferred stratification, which is a comparison with a benchmark consisting of comparable practices instead of correction of their own data.