Sentence examples for common gauge from inspiring English sources

(This is based on standard deviation, a common gauge of volatility).

But between mid-2004 and the end of 2006, the growth in business output per hour outside agriculture, the most common gauge of worker efficiency, slowed to an annual rate of just 1.5%, on average.

Value-at-risk, a common gauge of the amount of risk a firm is taking by measuring the amount of money the firm could lose on a given day with a certain measure of confidence, skyrocketed to $151 million from $106 million for the fourth quarter of 2006.

The chart above, supplied by Julian Callow of Barclays Capital, shows the gap between nominal GDP growth and official interest rates, a common gauge of policy, for a group of big economies: America, Britain, Canada, China, the euro area, India and Japan.

The most common gauge of a stock's value is its price to earnings (P/E) ratio.

Here are some common gauge numbers of steel used in making grills.

Average revenue generated by each available hotel room nationally -- the common industry gauge for the real estate side of the travel business -- declined 7percentt in 2001, according to Smith Travel Research.

One of the most common ways to gauge the adequacy of reserves is to compare them with loans that are past due.

BMI, the ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in metres, is a common, if imperfect, gauge of whether someone is over- or underweight.A person's BMI turns out to be hard to shift in the short term.

The most common way to gauge the success or failure of efforts to reform the intro course is to see how thoroughly students digest the material being taught.

Both studies used self-administered questionnaires to measure the severity of threat which might be considered a common way to gauge the individual's perceived threat.