The phrase "above appraisal" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing evaluations or assessments that are higher than a standard appraisal, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The project's value is above appraisal, indicating its potential for significant returns."
Alternatives: "beyond evaluation" or "surpassing assessment".
When owners of provincial, tile-roofed family houses insist that they wouldn't dream of selling, an offer five times above appraisal--plus a hint of what might happen should they refuse--usually changes their minds.
A train station project was hijacked by local officials who paid millions above appraisals for properties, and in at least one instance dealt with a mob-linked company.
It would allow the county to pay up to 10percentt above county appraisals if two-thirds of the 18 legislators agreed.
Since then, new land purchase policies have been enacted, including a bill approved by the Legislature in December that permits the county to pay more than 10percentt above county appraisals for land, provided that at least 14 of the 18 legislators agree.
The fact that many readers may have blanched at my unqualified appraisal above is central to understanding his predicament.
(Hugh McIlvanney, Sunday Times, March 2002) Now, you'll know from the headline of this piece that the appraisal above refers to Juan Sebastian Veron rather than Dimitar Berbatov.
In contrast to the above HTA agencies, NICE publishes drug appraisal documents which include detailed information on any MAA in place.
Yes, there was an upward bias – the average employee was rated slightly above "average" on the appraisal scale — but the shape of the distribution looked surprisingly normal (measured via kernel density, a statistical technique for plotting data that smooths out irregularities).
In contrast to the computational approaches discussed above, strategies of preliminary appraisal are not regarded as subject-neutral but as specific to particular fields of study.
In expanded essay form, it was later collected in Sedaris's first book, "Barrel Fever," and more than 10 years later it still pops off the page as a terrific piece of writing -- funny, fresh, beautifully observed and above all, savage in its appraisal of a culture lashing itself miserably to its annual rites of good cheer.
