Sentence examples for difficulty measuring from inspiring English sources

They may also have difficulty measuring pollution on city scales.

Historical estimates of whale longevity are limited because of difficulty measuring age in older whales.

Even in 1968, when recordkeeping of all kinds had presumably improved, a federal commission had difficulty measuring gun production because records were scant, he said.

Like the newspaper industry, he said, radio is having difficulty measuring the effects of advertising, which is undermining its business model.

Even when company leaders recognize that their data has value, they have difficulty measuring that value accurately — and it can cost them.

Conventional mass spectrometers have difficulty measuring abundances less than one hundred-thousandth of the reference isotope, because interfering ions are scattered into the analyzer location where the low-abundance isotope is to be sought.

Item difficulty measures the proportion of the total sample that answered a question correctly.

Although defining time presents difficulties, measuring it does not; it is the most accurately measured physical quantity.

However, application of the ES framework to forest management is challenged by difficulties measuring and comparing multiple ES across diverse and heterogeneous forest conditions.

Difficulties measuring the extent of spared land make it impossible to investigate fully the hypothesized causal chain from agricultural intensification to declines in cultivated areas and then to increases in spared land.

Similar to the difficulties measuring analog marketing, they're OK with not being able to measure everything in social--they now see the value.