1.   Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each.

2.   All of the students were ranked according to a formula that combined their grade point average with their scores on standardized math and verbal tests.

3.   Non-winners from all five regionals are ranked according to score, with only the top seven advancing.

4.   Rowers are ranked according to sex, age and weight.

5.   That database allowed companies to be ranked according to their training expenditures, and for portfolios to be constructed based on those rankings.

6.   The following jobs were ranked according to environment, income, outlook, physical demands, security and stress.

7.   The industries were ranked according to rate of return made on capital investments during the year.

8.   The reason, of course, is that the Wall Street Journal had ranked firms according to their market value, not their sales.

9.   The remaining stocks are ranked according to yield, with the leaders chosen for the portfolio.