best indicator

collocation in English

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best
adjective
uk
/best/us
/best/
of the highest quality, or being the most suitable, pleasing, or effective type of thing ...
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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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(Definition ofbestandindicatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For these reasons, we relied on the cross-wave composites as ourbestindicatorfor the subsequent analyses.
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Perhaps thebestindicatorof this ' wish to perpetuate the ie ' is adoption.
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First, the presence of psychopathology in the parent is often the singlebestindicatorof risk to the child for the same psychopathology.
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Furthermore, according to this author, thebestindicatorof the degree of aggregation is the s 2/x ratio.
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Thebestindicatorof foreign manufacturing's competitiveness would be its ability to drive down the relative price of manufactures in world markets through productivity advance.
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The authors reject the idea that employment equals liberation for women, and that women's share of full-time employment is thebestindicatorof 'progress'.
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We wanted to ensure that pensioners shared in the wealth of our community as it developed and thought that thebestindicatorwas average earnings.
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That is thebestindicatorof their commitment to public reform.
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Perhaps thebestindicatoris the new confidence which industry is feeling about the future.
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I believe that those figures are thebestindicatorof the importance that a political party or country attaches to overseas development.
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Thebestindicatorof youth crime is the number of young people cautioned by the police or convicted by the courts.
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We selected annual turnover because, all things considered, it was thebestindicatoravailable of airport activity.
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Thebestindicatorof biofuel use is volume of sales rather than number of vehicles.
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Of course, money spent on a service is not thebestindicatorof its quality.
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It is thebestindicatorwe have that the economy has lost competitiveness and cannot hold its own.
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We also have a practical question to pose: what is thebestindicatorwith which to assess cohesion?
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Thebestindicatorwe have of youth crime is the number of young people known to have been involved in offending.
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Evidence of that can be found in our current account trade deficit, which is probably thebestindicator.
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Let us focus on health inequalities, which are probably thebestindicatorof the failure or success of public policy.
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After careful study, we have come to the conclusion that that is thebestindicatorof whether a house is hard to heat.
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