Sentence examples for expected owing to from inspiring English sources

The increase in the number of tourists in Ukraine was wholly expected, owing to Euro 2012.

State budget officials said yesterday that deficits for the next three fiscal years would be higher than expected, owing to a slump on Wall Street and the decrease in income tax revenues that will probably result.

Finally, the tropical areas in the trade-wind belts in Central America are well supplied with water, yet less is available than might be expected owing to swift runoff after heavy rains and high evaporation.

When the sample mean is used as a point estimate of the population mean, some error can be expected owing to the fact that a sample, or subset of the population, is used to compute the point estimate.

Very few giveaways were expected, owing to the state of the economy and the continuing programme of austerity.

Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the savings might prove to be less than expected owing to long-term unemployment.

Beam R6 demonstrated much higher web-shear capacity than expected, owing to the use of higher fiber-factor.

Although it added that this shift is taking longer than expected, owing to the use of HTML5 tools in mobile website development "taking longer to impact the market".

Nationwide's Chief Economist, Robert Gardner, has said that a fall in house prices in the UK was to be expected owing to changes in stamp duty rules.

However, the CML said this was expected owing to the annual trend of fewer house-hunters looking at properties in the new year.

Nationwide said that the slowdown was to be expected owing to changes in stamp duty rules creating a "headwind" in an already difficult environment.