Sentence examples for quick measure of from inspiring English sources

Even humans are known to look for symmetry in mates, as a quick measure of fitness.

That being the case, a quick measure of a dinosaur femur can be added to the graph and the mass read off.

Here is a quick measure of his wealth: he paid $2,626,311 in a charity auction to have lunch with Mr. Buffett in 2010.

Here is a quick measure of the political climate in Texas, from one of the leaders of a group that wants to make this a competitive state: Texas Democrats don't let friends run for statewide office.

If you really want a quick measure of how stranded Ms Adams may be, settle for this: by the age of 35, Bette Davis had made Of Human Bondage, Dangerous, Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Letter, Now Voyager and The Little Foxes.

Unhappy about the cost of these examinations, the manufacturers proposed a cheaper shortcut: a quick measure of a child's height to establish his age and stamina.In 1876 Charles Roberts, an inspector, reported the statures of about 10,000 children, drawn from the registers of London military hospitals and his own tallies in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire.

The outbreak was suspected by an alert GP, who contacted the CCDC leading to adequate sampling of the suspected index patients and quick measures of control.

These types of omnibus measures are not as useful for healthcare providers or researchers who need a simple, quick measure specifically for care in labour and delivery.

10 Although the CVD risk scores were originally intended for a quick, consistent measure of absolute risk in individuals, through cross-sectional surveys of population samples, they could also provide a tool for estimating and monitoring population trends of CVD risks.

That requirement could still hamper Mrs. Merkel's ability to take quick measures, but it represented much less of a political hurdle than if the court had required approval by the full Parliament for each decision, which many analysts had predicted.

A good quick and dirty measure of inflation expectations is to look at the difference between the 10-year bond yields and the inflation-indexed bond yields.