In the border-city stores you could get a rough measure of each country's creative potential.

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Payback period: This is a rough measure of the number of years it would take the system in each example to pay for itself.

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But not necessarily: exams are only a rough measure of ability, so it may be sensible to have broad categories rather than narrow ones.

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And this is a rough measure since an appraisal for a building isn't usually performed regularly, and often is done only when it is to be sold.

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We have come up with a rough measure, along the lines of the "cash flow" used by analysts to evaluate companies with heavy plant-and-equipment outlays--cash flow here referring to the sum of earnings and depreciation.

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In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, different methods are used to measure rough sleeping which politicians there feel are more reliable.

BBC: Rough sleeper figure 'misleading'

The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.

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Ministers admit the Rough Sleeper Count is a snapshot, but they will use it to measure whether they have reached their target of eradicating rough sleeping by 2012.

BBC: Rough sleeper figure 'misleading'