Sentence examples for yardstick used from inspiring English sources

Global surface temperature is the major yardstick used to track how we are changing the climate.

Sales at stores open a year or more, the yardstick used in the retail industry, were down 14percentt in the quarter that ended July 31.

One yardstick used to assess affordability is the ratio of average house prices to average earnings, which captures whether housing is within reach of typical buyers.

So far this year, the Correction Department has classified 12 assaults as a stabbing or slashing, a yardstick used to measure serious violence in the jails.

IF Matt Diffee's success as a New Yorker cartoonist were measured against one yardstick used by professional baseball players, his batting average would be.100 — one cartoon published for every 10 submitted.

New dormitories, dining centers, and lavish recreational facilities became the yardstick used to measure one school versus the other.

Traditionally, particulate matter is the standard way air pollution is measured, and is the preferred yardstick used by organizations like WHO.

Nowadays, a yardstick used to determine the best locations for wind energy development is referred to as wind power density (WPD).

If the yardstick used in the life sciences industry is publication in high-impact-rated journals, then you are going to get that behavior.

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.

It could tighten the terms of buy-to-let loans so that they are brought into line with the more stringent yardsticks used for owner-occupiers.