Sentence examples for big benchmark from inspiring English sources

Frederick Dickinson, an associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in American-Japanese relations, called the Taft-Katsura memorandum "a big benchmark" in diplomatic history.

MakerBot's MinFill arrived quietly last night as a firmware upgrade for existing customers, and the company is already calling it a "big benchmark in speed and widespread adoption of 3D printing".

Burkett said events that hastened coastal erosion in recent decades won't be the last".When I was a child, Hurricane Camille was the big benchmark event, then it was Katrina".

"Our big benchmarks are the Chinese companies," says Bloisi.

She's got a lot of scenery to chew with her small role, and while she unfortunately disappears in the third act, I think Reilly does hit a few big benchmarks for potential Supporting Actress nominees: She's playing an addict, she has an overdose scene and she goes toe-to-toe with Denzel Washington, whom we all assume is locked in for a nomination.

A bigger benchmark waits in the wings.

Meanwhile, IBM is not releasing its bigger Benchmark updates this year, which in the past tracked some 17,000 different online retailers.

Still, many investment specialists dismiss the significance of such big, round benchmark numbers, and say that no sophisticated investors or hedge funds make investment decisions based on whether a stock index's total value can be measured in four or five digits.

Once unfathomably expensive, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the cost of genome sequencing for your average Joe is dropping fast on its way to a big, historical benchmark: The $1,000 genome.

The Olympic Games are even bigger, the benchmark, the maximum.

If you've read CrunchGear's laptop reviews before, you'll know we're not really big on benchmarking.