Sentence examples for the current index from inspiring English sources

The current index, for example, is based on consumer behavior in 1993-95.

Based on the current index, he said, the prospective five-year earnings growth rate would be 14.8percentt.

The current index assumes that if the price of apples go up, people will just buy fewer apples.

Over time, that would amount to a cut in benefits — because monthly checks would not rise as quickly as they would with the current index.

When the price of Porterhouse steak increases, the current index considers that a consumer can switch to a cheaper cut, as explained in an AARP paper.

The proposed changes would link benefits to a new measure of inflation — one that is projected to rise more slowly than the current index.

It is that simple: Just scrap the current indexing of pensions to the Consumer Price Index and replace it with a link to the state's gross domestic product.

He's written 11 connected short stories featuring one Peter Sackrider, a not-instantly-lovable character by any of the current indexes of quantifiable lovability: he's the son of a Kentucky establishment family (his father is a judge) as well as a trust-fund-inheriting, wife-ditching, Corolla-driving bourgeois dog who is trying to become a writer.

The current indexes don't allow for those kinds of subtleties, so I have no doubt the new ones will be an improvement.

The advocates can be further divided into those eager to learn more about the 'index' and proposing ideas for further analysis (testing of weather index insurance); and those who trust the current indices and advocate scaling up and promotion.

What we see occurring in the current indexes is equivalent to comparing the average value of a 2,000 square foot house in 2012 with a 3,000 square foot house today, and then surmising that because the average went up, the price also went up.