Sentence examples for benchmarks are difficult from inspiring English sources

Although exact benchmarks are difficult, Mr. Harbour mentions Chrysler's plant in Belvidere, Ill., as a comparable site, since it produces smaller cars.

Finding global benchmarks is difficult, but a useful reference by Damodaran (2012) summarises annual returns on USA stocks, short-term Treasury (T) bills, and long-term Treasury bonds.

"The summer of '99 was an extraordinary summer, and I think that to use it as a benchmark is difficult," said Robert G. Friedman, vice chairman of the Paramount Motion Picture Group.

Cardiac surgery volume benchmarks, for example, are difficult to meet as a result of improved percutaneous coronary interventions such as stenting [ 20].

The truth is that these valuation levels– even for benchmark stocks such as Microsoft and Dell — are difficult to justify on a fundamental-analysis basis unless companies manage to churn out outsized profit gains in the years to come.

However, if the improvements observed with treatment are within the range of the benchmarks it is difficult to draw clear conclusions.

Moreover, the existing reviews do not use the same benchmark of instances and the results are difficult to reproduce and generalise.

These ranges are difficult to interpret, as no firmly established willingness-to-pay benchmarks exist for venous thromboembolism prevention.

Still, Fed officials indicated that choosing an economic benchmark might be difficult, implying that the policy change would not be an imminent one.

We evaluated performance using weak- and strong-scaling benchmarks designed to be difficult for dynamic adaptivity.

That's an ambitious benchmark that will be difficult to achieve, and it's more likely that California will be about average for the year, officials say.