Sentence examples for make meaningful comparison from inspiring English sources

Such pro-forma results for a prior year usually help outsiders to make meaningful comparison with figures from the current year.On the face of it, EDF's operating profits increased 33% on a pro-forma basis in 2003.

To make meaningful comparison, the same measurement settings as in the first measurement series (i.e., the same frequency sweep and orientation sweep) were adopted for the second measurement series.

However, more specific cell type based transcriptome data needs to be generated to make meaningful comparison.

Thus, whilst mortality did not seem to differ, small numbers again make meaningful comparison between the ICU and non-ICU groups impossible.

Linear-scaling electronic structure methods (LSQMs) make possible the calculation of large systems but are still too computationally intensive to be applied with the degree of configurational sampling often required to make meaningful comparison with experiment.

We were not able to find other directly comparable studies with which to make meaningful comparison of our results, there are a number of HIT costing studies in other countries with varying cost estimates depending on the type of technology, parameters used and analysis assumptions- the costs range from thousands to millions of US Dollars [ 28, 32- 35].

The General Accounting Office, the auditing arm of Congress, said recently that the program had changed so many times it was no longer possible to make meaningful comparisons.

Hedge-fund strategies vary too much to make meaningful comparisons.Still, hedge funds' focus on absolute returns has also become synonymous with good returns at all times.

"It takes a bit of time to make meaningful comparisons, but we can deploy our resources to the best market," says Mr de Pouzilhac.

But these estimates are too vague to track trends over time or to make meaningful comparisons between countries, the UN laments.The numerical targets are also arbitrary.

In interviews and in more than 150 letters to the government, health care providers said that medical payments were so complex and convoluted that it was impossible to make meaningful comparisons between Medicare and other insurers.