Sentence examples for official gauge from inspiring English sources

They've created a model in which a radically insufficient number of jobs has resulted in a sharp decline in the official gauge of unemployment.

The mark, 15.33 inches, was set in December 1933, when the official rain gauge was downtown; the official gauge was moved to the airport in 1945.

FRANKFURT — An official gauge of the mood among consumers and businesses showed Thursday that the euro zone economy remained fragile, with manufacturers and builders growing more pessimistic about their prospects even though the sovereign debt crisis seemed to have eased.

In China, an official gauge of manufacturing activity remained below the key level that separates contraction from expansion in September, as manufacturers continued to face sluggish demand both abroad and at home.

One minute before midnight on Saturday, enough drops had fallen in a rain gauge at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to register one-hundredth of an inch, the only measurable rainfall the official gauge had taken in since June 30.

No. 3 became the first new locomotive to travel on the railway for over 80 years in 1951, but it frequently derailed, and on inspection it turned out that the Talyllyn track was laid approximately half an inch (13 mm) wider than the official gauge, a deliberate policy by the old company to accommodate the long wheelbase of Talyllyn.

Independent estimates are not significantly different from the official gauges.

Despite a goal of limiting inflation to no more than 4 percent a year, prices have stubbornly remained about 6 percent higher this autumn than a year ago for consumers based on official gauges — and up to twice that by the estimate of many private economists.

Week after week, Wall Street banks and other big employers have announced layoffs by the thousands, but month after month, the official gauges of the job market in the New York metropolitan area registered few signs of a downturn.

Rather than spending money now on reprinting menus and retraining baristas, the company is waiting to make changes while officials gauge the response from city inspectors — and the outcome of a pending lawsuit against the rules filed by the beverage industry.

At midday on Sunday, near the end of what is typically Seattle's rainiest month, the official rain gauge at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was well past 14 inches and rising, having mocked the November average of about 5.9 inches and smeared the previous single-month record documented at the airport, 12.92 inches, set in January 1953.