Sentence examples for lower benchmarks from inspiring English sources

The Pew study found that 19 states fell below its favored 80-percent threshold, but other studies use lower benchmarks to measure stability.

For each indicator, upper and lower benchmarks were set.

At present, there is no standard international classification system for stillbirth causation, and disagreement persists about the lower benchmarks of birth weight and gestational age used to define stillbirth.

Each month that your sales exceed a certain benchmark, you earn the bonus for that benchmark and any lower benchmarks exceeded during that month.

Those discounted fees will likely set a lower benchmark for future World Cup television-rights bids in the U.S., potentially costing FIFA millions of dollars in future revenue.

By far the most worrying explanation, though, is that employers have started to assume that the fall in inflation to zero is permanent rather than temporary and are using a lower benchmark when they begin pay negotiations.

Model performance measures were normalized by relating them to an upper and a lower benchmark representing a well-informed and an uninformed model calibration.

Given that present Chinese spot prices stand above $110 per ton, Wilkins said there is little likelihood of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, or Vale agreeing to a lower benchmark settlement with CISA, even if it is only for 6 months.

Even with a lower benchmark of immunogenicity (i.e. two fold increase in HAI titres), clear benefit was not detected.

This value corresponds to the lower benchmark dose (BMDL) divided by the composite uncertainty factor of 10 used to derive the reference dose assuming a linear dose response relationship by the National Research Council (2000).

The same urban weakening of suitable standards is occurring from a much lower benchmark, with just 57 per cent of the urban population having an improved facility by 2010, and one in five people in urban areas (19 per cent and growing) practicing open defecation.