Sentence examples for yardstick more than from inspiring English sources

By any yardstick, more than £20m in 10 days is a big number.

Local air quality officials have blocked control measures adopted elsewhere, insisting that they meet a cost-effectiveness yardstick more restrictive than used in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

In terms of content, Kumin relies on her favorite quadruped as yardstick, referring more than once to "the last two horses of our lives".

By that yardstick, Western Culinary's default rate more than doubles, to 12.5percentt.

He applied this data-driven approach to correction, measuring employee performance on more than 130 statistical yardsticks, from inmate violence to officer overtime and sick time and the speed at which broken equipment was repaired.

While the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that much of the world economy "is beginning to pull out of a recession unprecedented in the post-World War II era," the economies of Latvia, Estonia, Iceland, Ireland and Lithuania won't be coming along for the ride, with gross domestic product falling by more than 10% the standard yardstick for a depression this year.

(Actually, he probably threw up the normal amount, but he certainly threw up more than an adult, which was my yardstick up until becoming a mum).

If we use six months of imports as our yardstick (a common rule of thumb) then China has more than $3tn of excess reserves.

The material reversal might have troubled many more than it did me, but the yardstick presented by that meeting - the visible distance travelled from those clear-eyed, hopeful days of early childhood - was what stung.

One conservative yardstick of international NGOs (that is, groups with operations in more than one country) is the Yearbook of International Organisations.

Also always close at hand were Mr. Franken and his wife, Franni, who had met in college more than 40 years before; the couple became a yardstick for them.