Sentence examples for rough benchmark from inspiring English sources

Mr. Patrick said he would use a medical inflation rate of 3.2 percent as a rough benchmark.

The House Budget Committee's Democratic staff said that in 2002 dollars, the cost of the war was $79.9 billion, providing a very rough benchmark for what a conflict of similar dimensions might cost today.

The Unesco convention has provided a rough benchmark, Ms. Prott said: if an object was first seen outside its country after 1970, then "a respectable museum should not buy it".

Furthermore, LQ can produce a rough benchmark in the analysis of localization in an area [ 3].

Some financial publications (both in print and online) publish average inventory turnover rankings by industry sector, which can give you a rough benchmark to measure a company's performance against.

Since there is an absence of relevant information in the literature, these values could be used as rough benchmarks for the predictability of annual precipitation.

The provided empirical solution to the problem of one-step ahead forecasting in geoscience is rather qualitative than quantitative, while the experiments using standardized precipitation and temperature data have offered rough benchmarks only.

Since there is an absence of relevant information in the literature, the numerical results obtained using the standardized real-world datasets could be used as rough benchmarks for the one-step ahead predictability of annual precipitation and temperature.

These two values are 67% smaller and 46% larger than 1 (standard deviation of the standardized time series) respectively and could be used as rough benchmarks for the predictability of annual temperature (for an explanation see the subsection entitled "Experiments using the precipitation datasets").

America is famously the world's biggest spender on health care, but with a DALE of 70 years, it still falls behind Japan, which forks out far less.Dr Murray admits that DALE is a rough-and-ready benchmark.

Maybe, but applying some rough but solid benchmarks, I disagree.