So we had to bring this system up to contemporary standards.

But we all have to meet contemporary standards of excellence.

Many of your stories are quite short, by contemporary standards.

The members of the party were comfortably well off by contemporary standards.

They were all considered to be good employers by contemporary standards.

Gregory had a less than successful international career, even by contemporary standards.

By contemporary standards, these objects seem fit for a king.

But the hours in question were few by contemporary standards.

What would have been a short trip without a pregnant woman, even by contemporary standards, was going to take the better part of a week.

By contemporary standards, this would never be considered a feminist work.