The phrase "top benchmark" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when comparing something to the highest level or standard, or to the best of its class. For example, "This new phone has set a new top benchmark for smartphone technology."
Not everyone is going to gain admission, even if, as I noted in my previous post, they meet the top benchmarks for acceptance: stratospheric test results and transcripts.
Wokingham achieved an overall 96% rating in the top 50 benchmark, which is based on a programme of mystery shopping with the overall measure of performance based on a weighted scorecard, made up of key drivers of satisfaction.
The Invernesian is only the fourth Scot to breach the top 20 benchmark, after Sandy Lyle, Sam Torrance and Colin Montgomerie.
The song, which was fronted by two of Latin music's biggest stars from the beginning, was performing very well on the Hot 100 on its own, which means it was coming close to passing the top 40 benchmark.
This type of analysis could also help to support the statement "For the top ranked benchmark complexes, the majority of the top 5 ECs is correct to within 8A... .......... with a more quantitative analysis (Table 1 only shows 7 of the 30 complexes in the dataset; Supplementary file 3 shows all individual contact maps, but no overall quantification).
"It is a top-notch benchmark that they will always remember.
For the former, Ms Bush brought in FTSE, a British firm that calculates (among other top share benchmarks) London's FTSE 100 index.
In a total reversal, the list of todays advancers reads like the list of yesterdays biggest losers, topped by benchmark names such as Intel intc, Microsoft msft, Dell dell, Amazon amzn and Yahoo! yhoo.
University of Maryland professor Russell Wermers figures the average actively managed aggressive-growth fund tops its benchmark by 2.6% a year, before expenses three times the margin of the average actively managed value fund.
