That may be how you set a low benchmark for next season.
At the same time, the results set a benchmark that may be hard to match in the years ahead.
National standards would set a benchmark for what children of different ages should be expected to know.
It set a benchmark that was so high as to be beyond even a natural ideal.
Yesterday, he set an ambitious benchmark for their parents, too.
Traditionally, the first deal reached between these two groups sets a benchmark to be followed by the rest of the industry.
He set a benchmark for the rest of us.
Aside from its critical and commercial success as a song, the accompanying music video set a benchmark for the art form.
It also set a benchmark to follow as the debate over ground forces intensifies.
Its light wings and easy rigging set a new benchmark.