Sentence examples for good yardstick from inspiring English sources

"It will be a good yardstick for us," he said.

A good yardstick is if you wouldn't lend the person your own money, then don't act as guarantor".

"He beat a good yardstick in Splash Of Ginge so it is solid form and it was easy enough to ride him.

Mr Wallison reckons rents are a good yardstick: house prices that rise in line with rents make sense, since both are a sign of high demand.

Currency devaluations muddy the waters, but Hong Kong, with the statistical clarity of an unchanged currency, is a good yardstick: Malaysians are spending half what they did a year ago, Indonesians and Thais two-thirds, Singaporeans and Filipinos three-quarters.

As the largest and most comprehensive university of the State University of New York's 64 campuses, Buffalo is a good yardstick for measuring just how far New York has traveled — yet how short it has fallen from Nelson A. Rockefeller's vision of creating a premier public university system.

"I think two really good yardsticks are the following," he explains.

Choose the Right Yardstick.

The ETX wasn't good by either yardstick.

Business may not be easy in this economy, but it is good by many yardsticks.

This is a good if possibly superficial yardstick for measuring museums' alertness to new art.