Sentence examples for close to the benchmark from inspiring English sources

By definition, if you stick close to the benchmark, you cannot perform spectacularly badly (in relative terms, at least).

Despite the commission's assurances that the benchmark is a Europe-wide average rate, Ms. O'Driscoll fears that those who have no chance of getting close to the benchmark rate will simply give up trying.

Herein, we demonstrate the single-step, chemical-free fabrication of N, P dualdoped honeycomb carbon that has hierarchically porous structure and oxygen electrocatalysis activity close to the benchmark Pt/C.

The developed coatings/parts are characterized by low porosity (<1%), fine microstructure, and their microhardness is close to the benchmark value of wrought alloys after thermal treatment (Co-based alloy Stellite, Inox 316L, stainless steel 17-4PH).

The estimates are close to the benchmark case.

The proposed bidirectional frequency-domain tracking algorithm, proposed in this paper, is shown to attain communication rates close to the benchmark and to outperform a competing algorithm.

But in the past six weeks, the yields on zeros steadied and then moved closer to the benchmark 10-year Treasury rate as sales of zeros eased.

The flow structures obtained from simulation results reveal that the velocity distributions in the T-junction with vanes are more uniform than those without vanes so that the pressure distributions around the circular cylinder are much closer to the benchmark.

That is, owners of ten-year telecom and basic-industries bonds got five points of price appreciation when bond yields in these sectors moved about six tenths of a percentage point closer to the benchmark ten-year swap rates last year.

The proposed alphabets are summarized in Table 3; the note 'close to UMP' means that despite the alphabet is not UMP, it performs very close to the UMP benchmark.

The La Paz project would get Glendale Water & Power close to the final benchmark ahead of schedule, Steiger said.