"measure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So it's an indirect and imperfect measure of corruption.
- Both education and leisure activities are imperfect measures of mental exercise.
- The Senate will soon vote on an imperfect Democratic measure that would at least try to stop that traffic.
- And even that statistic would be an imperfect measure of economic welfare.
- But patent counts alone, Mr. Gates noted, are an imperfect measure of a company's innovative activity.
- Its solvency is widely used as an indicator of Medicare's overall financial health, but experts agree that it is an imperfect measure.
- Arrests last week fell by 65 percent, although arrests can be an imperfect measure of enforcement during a crime lull.
- The scientists said their study was "more exploratory and suggestive than definitive," in part because parental smoking is an imperfect measure of environmental tobacco smoke.
- As with adults, the researchers write, BMI "is an imperfect measure of body fat."
- Population, many argue, is an equally imperfect measure of need, because potential threats vary greatly from one urban area to another.
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