'by present standards' can be used in written English.
It is usually used to compare something in the present time with past times. For example: By present standards, the quality of the food in restaurants has improved greatly.
Some characters can't help but seem stereotypical judged by present standards.
Historians are taught not to judge the past by present standards.
All this was the subject of a brilliant and, by present standards, very bold Saturday issue of the newspaper Izvestia, which led with the headline "The silence at the top".
Weidenfeld delivers his account of his life, which straddles four marriages ("Perhaps my reputation has been exaggerated by the country's Puritan outlook; by present standards, I'm living an exemplary hermit's life"), from a deep red armchair.
By present standards, Vinik's 30% cash and bond positions at Magellan seem outlandish.
By present standards they would not even be considered professionals.
Our experience of man and things should not be perceived as limited by our present standards of judgment.
Although in the early days its production methods were crude by Friendly's present standards, it was the first television documentary series of any consequence that attempted to deal with current affairs.
It was superseded in 1889 by the present standard kilogram, also a solid cylinder, of height equal to its diameter, made of the same platinum-iridium alloy as the bar then in use as the standard for defining the metre.
The complexity of such systems will not be excessive by present engineering standards.
Even some industrial machines, which were considered "powerful" for their period, had primitive programming technologies by present day standards.
