Sentence examples for industry yardstick from inspiring English sources

Figures from Orange suggest that these smartphones increase the average revenue per user (ARPU), a crucial industry yardstick, by around €15 ($18) a month.

Mr. Mowry, using a standard electric industry yardstick, said the intended cost was $5,000 per kilowatt of capacity, about $900 million a unit.

A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.

And there is more room for optimism: sales at stores open at least a year, an important industry yardstick, were up 2.5percentt for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2003, which ended Jan 31.

Her "Walk Away Your Waistline" was No. 6 in sales earlier this month at Collage Video, a fitness video clearinghouse in Minneapolis whose rankings have become an industry yardstick.

"It also includes the Internet, small independent stores and stores that might not report comp-store sales," she said, referring to the industry yardstick that compares this year's sales to last year's in stores open at least a year.

But to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the sober voice of the philanthropy industry, the yardstick is much higher.

The mortgage industry has a yardstick for measuring the size of those profits.

Album downloads are up 2 percent, to 91.9 million; combining these results using the industry's standard yardstick of 10 tracks to an album, total digital sales are down almost 1 percent.

In fact, since last year, owners around the country have reported quickening rates of both move-outs and move-ins, making any occupancy rate — the industry's fundamental yardstick — feel kind of arbitrary, like the momentary averaging-out of a blur of activity, with no single, dominant trend (or maybe even logic) behind it.

All the same, £9m – even when judged against the banking industry's otherworldly yardsticks – is a remarkable sum.