Sentence examples for the benchmark level from inspiring English sources

Prescriptions for sedatives and antidepressants both declined afterward, though not to the benchmark level.

The Bank of Japan cut its key rate to 0.3percentt in October, shaving 0.2 percentage points off the benchmark level, its first cut in seven years.

Kyoto will not be binding until its signatories account for at least 55% of carbon emissions made in 1990 - the benchmark level set by the agreement.

The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics revised up the benchmark level of employment for March , 2012 by 422,000 jobs, more than it initially projected, and most months thereafter.

In 2000, when the old Wychall Farm infant and junior schools merged on the current site, the upper school was in special measures and fewer than a quarter of 11-year-olds had achieved the benchmark level 4 in key stage 2 English tests.

Moreover, the pressure distributions around the circular cylinder in the T-junction without vanes show a double-peak type especially at a low velocity ratio, and thus present low correlation degrees compared with the benchmark, meanwhile, the amplitude ratios decrease from double to half of the benchmark level.

"Current operation staffing levels are not adequate even when the current recruitment exercises have been completed; the benchmark levels of staffing need to be reviewed".

There is an urgent need to review the methods and terms used in these studies, clarify the misconceptions, and recommend methods to correctly determine and define the benchmark levels and ranges.

In effect, they have challenged those relatively weak governments to raise taxes and impose harsh spending cuts on a restive populace to bring down their deficits from over 10 percent of G.D.P. to the benchmark levels close to 3 percent of G.D.P. called for in the European treaty that created the euro.

These figures indicate the magnitude of exposure: values that are >1 indicate the –fold factor by which the estimated mean intake exceeds the benchmark levels.

We defined an exceedance as occurring when the indoor household concentration, or an individual occupant's exposure, exceeded one of the benchmark levels noted in Table 1.