Sentence examples for figure forecast from inspiring English sources
That was below the $300 billion figure forecast by some Chinese economists but came at a time of worldwide concern about the safety of Chinese goods ranging from toothpaste and seafood to tires and toys.
The profit of 28 cents a share matched the figure forecast by Wall Street analysts surveyed by First Call/Thomson Financial, but the company's stock price fell $2.3125, to $24.25, on the New York Stock Exchange.
Informa Telecoms & Media forecasts that there will be more than 600,000 BlackBerry sales in India this year and that India's smartphone market will have reached approximately 12m – a figure forecast to grow to 40m by the end of 2015.
According to figures from the Centre for Economics and Business Research, UK businesses and public bodies held data worth £25.1bn in 2001 – a figure forecast to reach £40.7bn by 2017.
Mr Brown plans to return to the traditional approach which would imply total borrowing over the next five years some £3.75 billion above the figure forecast in the 1996 budget.
But the United Nations estimates that by 2045, the dependency ratio in China will be 39, almost exactly the same as in Britain and well above the 34.6 figure forecast for the United States.
In 2013 the UK meat-free food market hit £625m in sales, a figure forecasted to rise to £657m in 2014.
The return to pre-crash profit levels comes as official figures forecast 42,710 affordable homes will be built in England in the year to April – the lowest number since 2006, and a 26% fall since 2010.
Yet demand is rising fast with the numbers of over-85s expected to double in 20 years and dementia figures forecast to increase by a third to more than 1.1 million by 2025.
See articleIn that vein, Republicans seized on figures forecasting that the labour force could shrink by 2.5m over the next decade because of Obamacare.
By our own figures, we forecast that by the end of 2015 some 90.4% of music and film sales will be online.
