31.   Griffey was going to go down as one of the all-time greats, a measuring stick for center fielders for the next century.

32.   Gold could be considered a measuring stick.

33.   He has come far, but the Wizards are not exactly the measuring stick for Camby or the Knicks.

34.   He won more frequently, which is the measuring stick of a quarterback.

35.   I had no measuring stick.

36.   If fame, reverence and money are the measuring sticks, Coach K is the most powerful man at Duke.

37.   In fact, few measuring sticks are reliable enough to assess the influence of the Million Man March.

38.   In many ways, this fight is a new measuring stick for Tyson, as was the McNeeley fight.

39.   Inserting a measuring stick into a snowpack is not reliable, given the rather rapid compaction of accumulating snow.

40.   Irwin was his personal measuring stick.