Sentence examples for decent proxy from inspiring English sources

Seismologists know that how long an earthquake lasts is a decent proxy for its magnitude.

At the same time, Wichita is also a decent proxy for plenty of other blue-collar but socially conservative places like Allentown, Pa., and Columbus, Ohio — the swing districts of the swing states that decide elections.

Religious census figures provide a decent proxy for the numbers that sustain both clubs: in 2001, less than 18% of the population of Scotland identified as being Roman Catholic.

That allows a look at how G-rated pictures, a decent proxy for children's films, perform at the box office: As it turns out, G-rated films, on average, book domestic box office returns that are about 2.4 times production budget and global box office returns that are about 5.3 times budget.

In a paper published by the IMF in January, three economists, Ashoka Mody, Anusha Nath and Michael Walton, looked at the Bombay Stock Exchange, a decent proxy for India's formal business sector, with thousands of firms listed on it, many very small.

The S&P 500, a decent proxy for the total value of the U.S. stock market, is the benchmark most widely used for index investing and performance measurement.

There are, though, decent proxies.

Invalid Circular Validation: They use reciprocity data, such as likes and retweets (which are decent proxies for one's digital influence), for validation.

The controllers had a good weight to them, and made decent proxies for my hands in virtual space.

Being a kid, I had a scholarship to a decent school and, by proxy of that, was surrounded by people whose parents were better off than my own.

By concentrating on aspects beyond income and treating income as a proxy for a decent standard of living, the HDI provides a more comprehensive picture of human life than income only [ 14].