Sentence examples for measures things were from inspiring English sources

By most measures, things were going OK.

But progress is patchy – up to half of respondents in some areas said they had insufficient food – and by some measures things are worse than before.

In fairness, how we decide to measure things is somewhat arbitrary, but once a unit of measurement has been agreed upon that is how the thing is judged.

On that measure, things are going well.

Our obsession with measuring things is directly opposed to nature, which is anything but straight.

But the craziness we have for measuring things is leading us away from that.

By many measures, they said, things were worse, not better.

But measured against the way things were expected to be, this is a revolution stalled.

That this counts as an achievement is a measure of how bad things were, and are.

It is a measure of how bad things were that Tony still regards inviting his mother to dinner as an unusual step.

So, measuring how things are going on the road and rail network is one thing.