useful indicator

collocation in English

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useful
adjective
uk
/ˈjuːs.fəl/us
/ˈjuːs.fəl/
effective; helping you to do or ...
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indicator
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.dɪ.keɪ.tər/us
/ˈɪn.də.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
something that shows what a situation ...
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In this respect, neither growth nor the interest rate seems to be ausefulindicatorof fiscal sustainability by itself.
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Monitoring weight is ausefulindicatorfor assessing therapy choices and progress and referral to a dietician for review should be considered.
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The pick-up rate may serve as ausefulindicatorfor quality of medical services.
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Just as often, they saw it as ausefulindicatorof illness, an inevitable side effect of drastic cures, and a toughening, salutary sensation.
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Poverty levels provide ausefulindicatorof the degree of success of efforts to achieve this second goal - the prevention of deprivation.
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A baseline titre early in pregnancy is ausefulindicatorof fetal risk.
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Therefore, eosinophil concentrations may be ausefulindicatorof resistance to nematode infection but only in older lambs that have been continually exposed to infection.
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Nevertheless, the availability of historical data makes this ausefulindicator.
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Ausefulindicatorin terms of comparing the clinical accuracy being achieved is the value(s) reported for the standard deviation.
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The results from the control part of this study serve as ausefulindicatorof the behaviour of cumulus cells on a plastic substrate.
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The disappearance of large muscles in the thorax is ausefulindicatorof completeness of clearing.
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Imagine for a moment that there was some structural property of the tool that meant that symmetry was ausefulindicatorof quality.
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Print density, measured on significantly large surfaces, also provides ausefulindicatorof trace-maker behaviour.
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To the extent that owner occupation reflects a person's commitment to the local community, these findings represent ausefulindicatorof older people's integration within rural society.
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It provides a general andusefulindicatorof how neurons behaved around the time of saccadic eye movements, but does not tell us about the timing of these responses.
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Vaquera et al. (1983) also found a mid-arm circumference of < 90 cm to be ausefulindicatorfor predicting risk of death during the first 14 days of life.
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The infant mortality rate has long been regarded as ausefulindicatorof the state of health and health services in a country.
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Anotherusefulindicatoris the change in house prices.
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In other words, except in a few well-publicised cases, genetic tests are not as yet ausefulindicatorof future actual disability.
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The mostusefulindicatorcompares motorway deaths to the amount of traffic: information is readily available for the following countries.
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