'minimum benchmark' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the lowest or baseline level that a particular performance is expected to reach or exceed. For example, "The students have achieved a minimum benchmark in math scores that make them eligible for the math club."
"More than half of the nation's nursing homes don't meet a minimum benchmark for staffing," Mr. Grassley said.
The board agreed to set a minimum benchmark for the greenhouse gas emissions cuts that projects must achieve, but not until 2016.
Negotiations between the national government and federal unions, which are meant to set a minimum benchmark for the provinces, also foundered.
The Better Work report said just 16 percent of apparel workers who are paid by the number of pieces they produce earned 300 Haitian gourdes for an eight-hour day, or about $6.90, a minimum benchmark the factories must offer such workers.
Try setting a realistic target number of publications for yourself that would be the minimum benchmark for success.
It requires that the stock outperform a minimum benchmark before earning a positive score, then accelerates the reward for beating or missing it.
"There are minimum benchmarks Google has to meet," said Matthew Fitzsimmons, an assistant Connecticut attorney general who negotiated with the company.
DOE has outlined a series of minimum benchmarks for how much fuel automobiles must be able to carry--enough to allow them to drive 483 kilometers (300 miles) between fill-ups.
We found an average-risk ADR of 36.58% in men and 28.83% in women, both higher than the minimum benchmarks (ADR of 25% for men and 15% for women) recommended by the United States Multi-Society Task Force for screening colonoscopies [ 7, 16].
Only 5.3% of people on incapacity benefit were found work lasting for six months, significantly under the government's minimum performance benchmark of 16.5%.
After validating the model with the case of a UK eco-town, Monte Carlo analysis is used to assess how the minimum energy benchmark varies in response to planning constraints on high-density housing and car ownership.
