Sentence examples for bit higher than expected from inspiring English sources

"It is quite a bit higher than expected on the output price side.

"Expenses were a bit higher than expected, but the results are pretty nice over all," said Rich Silver, an analyst at Lehman Brothers.

The payroll figure, of 175,000 new jobs, was a bit higher than expected, although I wouldn't attach very much significance to that.

For what it's worth — probably not very much — I think the payroll figure might well come in a bit higher than expected, and I also anticipate that April's figures will be revised upward.

Alan Castle, at Lehman Brothers, said the borrowing numbers were a bit higher than expected, seemingly because of the fall in North Sea oil taxes continuing into the future.

TV sales in January, he added, had been a little bit higher than expected, and would probably be about the same or a little bit better than expected in February and March.

"We thought we'd raise somewhere between $35M and $50M," he said, "but in the end, interest proved to be a bit higher than we expected".

As a result, inflation was a bit higher than might have been expected in June but a bit lower in July.

One contributing factor, he said, could be that the quit rate in the group getting the placebo was a bit higher than the company had expected.

These numbers are quite a bit higher than what would be expected in a normal population.

Oblivion came in a bit higher than industry expectations.