Medical insurance premiums, a good proxy for overall health costs, have risen about 60 percent during the Bush presidency.

In the European mobile telephone market, making an international call is a good proxy for "importance" of that call.

"It's probably a good proxy of what we can expect to see in the final quarter."

Conditional probabilities make a good proxy for the continuum value.

"Demographics used to be a good proxy for attitudes," Donatiello says.

Are utilities still a good proxy for bonds?

"Why didn't you get a good proxy and keep it?"

"Although the die has been cast, Thanksgiving weekend is not always a good proxy for the fourth quarter," he said.

The return on domestically held short-dated government bonds is normally perceived as a good proxy for the risk free rate.

Such bids are usually seen as a good proxy of small investor demand for securities.