Sentence examples for yardstick of value from inspiring English sources

As a historian noted, it was as if "the yardstick of value was 36 inches long in 1879... 46 inches in 1896, 13 and a half inches in 1920".

Current American share prices are breaking new ground in their relationship with traditional yardsticks of value.

Or will they introduce conventional yardsticks of value into a sector that has enjoyed a reprieve from reality?

Doing that requires going well beyond that most venerable of value yardsticks, the price/earnings ratio, which represents a stock's price as a multiple of net income per share.

Irrespective of method used, these rules of thumb are all intended to be a yardstick for valuing informal production gains or losses.

And if money is a unit of value, it is hard to conceive of a yardstick better than purchasing power.

In the quarterly filing, the investment bank also disclosed that it reined in its value at risk, a yardstick of how large a loss could be posted in one trading day.

Its value at risk, a yardstick of how much in losses could be suffered in one trading day, dropped to $81 million a day from $92 million a day in the second quarter, a level not seen in more than five years.

In rates and credit spreads, the bank's quarterly value at risk — a yardstick of how much could be lost in one trading day — was $61 million, up from $46 million in the year-ago period.

"The publishers that are setting the ground rules right now are making higher C.P.M.'s," said Michael Greene, an analyst at Forrester Research, referring to the cost per thousand impressions, a yardstick for the value of an ad.

Value-at-risk is a yardstick of the amount of losses that could be experienced in one trading day.