Sentence examples for years as a benchmark from inspiring English sources

Many talk of two years as a benchmark period to regaining something that resembles your previous health.

Companies typically hold up pay from previous years as a benchmark, but just how this paycheck stacks up against, say, a company's earnings or stock market performance is rarely laid out.

Patients tended to remember the 'undiagnosed years' as a benchmark, which reinforced how important medication was to them.

They use two consecutive years of data, the first year as a benchmark to find such top authors, and the second year to examine the top authors performance.

Using the maximum number of different genera in the middle part of the Guadalupian Epoch (about 272.3 million to 259.8 million years ago) as a benchmark, extinction within marine invertebrate faunas significantly reduced the number of different genera by 12 to 70 percent by the beginning of the Capitanian Age some 266 million years ago.

If our achievements over the past few years serve as a benchmark, there is room for optimism that working together we can further our progress on meaningful criminal justice reform in 2016 -- and beyond.

Record sales--particularly 45 rpm singles--have declined in recent years as a genuine benchmark of the most popular records in the country, he said.

But the Turing test survived for almost seventy-years as a benchmark.

(In practice, a 30-year mortgage's duration is closer to the five-year note, but the market tends to use the 10-year bond as a benchmark).

The shift to the 10-year note as a benchmark had already begun because of its wide use as a pricing point in the corporate and mortgage markets.

Well, thus far this year using the ten-year Treasury as a benchmark you haven't done badly.