Yardstick Sentence Examples

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  • Use a tape measure or a string that you can then measure with a ruler or yardstick.

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  • Melissa's message was equally upbeat the comprehensive system is simply the best, by any academic or social yardstick.

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  • He continues to say that is the fundamental yardstick of our nation 's economic success.

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  • Hold the string or tape against a yardstick to determine your actual bust measurement.

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  • How a person dealt with that fear was the measure of their strength - and she was coming up short on the yardstick.

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  • A good yardstick is ' Am I being bitten?

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  • The yardstick of equality has provided much needed guidance.

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  • For the most part, we measure them all with the same yardstick.

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  • Melissa 's message was equally upbeat the comprehensive system is simply the best, by any academic or social yardstick.

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  • Before making an order for division of assets, a judge should check his tentative views against the yardstick of equal division.

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  • If we continue to allow our schools to churn out illiterates perhaps we should adopt some similar yardstick of progress for the next government.

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  • His success has become the unofficial yardstick for any overseas executive put in charge of a local firm in trouble.

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  • Secondly, the assessment provides a yardstick with which to measure any change.

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  • He will then find he has a yardstick against which to measure the worth of all other literature on the same subject.

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  • This can be done indirectly by applying the same yardstick to the Marxists and the disciples of Foucault as they apply to others.

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  • Seriousness in security is still measured by the yardstick of expenditure of GDP on military power.

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  • He continues to say that is the fundamental yardstick of our nation's economic success.

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  • Wednesday's game at Derby also offered a useful yardstick by which the Tiger faithful could judge just how far we have come.

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  • My own yardstick for a wall to worktop maximum gap would be no greater than 3mm.

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  • Wednesday 's game at Derby also offered a useful yardstick by which the Tiger faithful could judge just how far we have come.

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  • Productivity growth - what the Chancellor himself called the " the fundamental yardstick of economic performance " - has slumped.

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  • The yardstick for success in the modern world is whether the services we fund deliver their core purpose.

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  • If you don't have a tape measure, use a piece of non-stretchable ribbon to "measure" and then hold the ribbon against a ruler, yardstick or metal tape measure to obtain your measurement.

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  • Use a yardstick or other long stick to stir until the Borax and washing soda powders are completely dissolved.

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