Sentence examples for time yardsticks from inspiring English sources

For time series, this means using different "time yardsticks", from hourly through daily to monthly and yearly, within the same study.

Yet this policy statement might have remained a dead letter if Vail had not at the same time designed yardsticks of service performance and introduced these as a means to measure, and ultimately to reward, managerial performance.

So the message to Andy Burnham is stop strangling the life out of the UK's commercial TV industry, remembering that in this country at least the BBC is there all the time as yardstick to keep product placement honest.

Today marked the seventh time the yardstick closed at an all-time high in the past ten trading sessions.

The widely quoted index closed the day 1% higher than Wednesday's close, marking the first time the yardstick managed to eke out a gain in eight sessions.

In contrast, the generalized diffusion impedance (or Contrell response) is universal, owing to the fact that the time-dependent "yardstick"—the diffusion length measures the fractal dimension proper.

"Active cooking time" is the yardstick by which food magazines let you know how long it takes to make their recipes.

Focus instead on time-tested valuation yardsticks, like multiples of earnings and book value, and the years ahead.

One year to the date after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 for the first time, the vintage yardstick of the American stock market is once again flirting with the five-digit milestone.

However, most still believe that the dollar is the best way of measuring of wealth, even if it is shrinking over time as a yardstick.

This is why astronomers sometimes use time as a yardstick, using the speed of light —186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) —to get a meaningful comparison for us regular humans.