"passed the benchmark" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to have successfully met or exceeded a standard or goal that has been set. You can use it in a sentence to describe someone or something's achievement or progress. Example: The company's new product passed the benchmark and received rave reviews from customers and industry experts alike.
They should have little difficulty in passing the benchmark of 200 net gains by the time the final result comes in tomorrow afternoon.
They are set to show that the percentage getting top grade A* to C grade passes – the benchmark by which schools are measured – has risen from 65.7 per cent last year to around 66 per cent this.
For much of 2007, Democrats were able to deprecate the military progress and political reconciliation taking place on the ground by harping on the failure of the Iraqi government to pass the benchmark legislation.
Students enrolled in a school without the policy tend to show a higher anxiety than those who are required to pass the benchmark tests.
Daniel W. Bursch, 44, of the Navy, and Col. Carl E. Walz, 46, of the Air Force, passed the previous benchmark -- 188 days, 4 hours -- late on Tuesday while sleeping.
On Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average passed the 10,000 benchmark for the first time since Jan . 10 but it retreated on Friday, still ending the week up 158.8 points, or 1.6percentt, at 9,903.04.
Executives at Continental and Delta said they had to do something to reward travelers who had long since passed the 75,000-mile benchmark, a once-lofty goal that has become increasingly easy to attain, thanks to bonuses like those for full-fare tickets.
Each university sets its own requirement if students fail to pass the graduation benchmark.
For example, if a tropical storm in the Northwestern Pacific reaches hurricane-strength winds on the Beaufort scale, it is referred to as a typhoon; if a tropical storm passes the same benchmark in the Northeast Pacific Basin, or in the North Atlantic, it is called a hurricane.
