Sentence examples for downwards adjusted from inspiring English sources

The average gap between our (downwards adjusted) first prediction and the actual number of day trips was 47 % after 2008, but again the gap was rising and became 60%% by 2012.

We are led to regard something around 24%% as more likely as an estimate of the average impact in the late period, but we must not forget that the downwards adjusted AR(1) projection was climbing and had already attained 0.4 (40%%) by the end of our data.

"People with old money nearly always have to be adjusted downwards," he said.

There are three "protected" budgets that will remain immune from the cuts – the NHS, schools and overseas development, though the latter will be adjusted downwards if Britain's gross national income (GNI) shrinks.

It will not be easy, says Mr Najafizada, but people's expectations and their budgets will have to be adjusted downwards once the economy is off a war footing.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]: a little betterSIR – Your report on the recent HIV household survey in Kenya suggests that apparent discrepancies between preliminary results and the UNAIDS/WHO estimates of the HIV epidemic in Kenya mean that prevalence rates should possibly be adjusted downwards elsewhere in Africa ("Good news, apparently", January 17th).

For it will, at minimum, start with the idea that he's just made a $3.5 billion or so profit (adjusted downwards for the difference between the private market value of Facebook last fall and the IPO price) on his Facebook stock which he got originally for minimal amounts of money.

The sums requested for the programme by President Barack Obama have routinely been adjusted downwards by Congress.

Grain and straw yields of malting barley were adjusted downwards by 10% prior to calculation.

Giving some students a grade which is adjusted downwards would lower their standard of achievement when it actually needs to be raised.

To reduce the risk of type I errors where multiple statistical tests were run on different distance ratios measured on the same dataset, the significance limit (α ≤ 0.05) was adjusted downwards according to Šidák (1967).