Sentence examples for forecasts in the first from inspiring English sources

Some of the habits she encourages are the same ones that have helped produce such lousy forecasts in the first place.

The UK government estimates that would have left a £18bn shortfall in the SNP's taxation and spending forecasts in the first three years of independence.

Of course, these are the same people who failed to see the recession coming so really we shouldn't have even paid any attention to their forecasts in the first place.

Wal-Mart Stores rose $1.05, or 1.5 percent, to $70.26 after beating analysts' profit forecasts in the fourth quarter.

The dramatic deterioration in FOMC forecasts in the fourth quarter of 2008 rationalises the Fed's pre-emptive easing that year.

Watson Pharmaceuticals plunged $4.80, to $27.49, after the company said it would miss earnings forecasts in the second quarter because of slow sales of its oral contraceptive products.

Growth at the consumer goods multinational, which makes Dove soap, Ben & Jerry's ice-cream and Persil washing powder, failed to meet market forecasts in the fourth quarter, with underlying sales rising by 2.1%.

When I.B.M. announced in mid-January that it had beat Wall Street's profit forecasts in the fourth quarter, it did not disclose that the sale of a business had generated $300 million that the company used to lower its operating costs.

China's industrial production rose more than economists forecast in the first two months of 2005.

The league said that owners were assuming the risk that revenues might not grow as much as forecast in the first four years of the deal and that their plan was that the "true up" would start in 2015.

For every percentage point that GDP is lower than expected, public borrowing will be roughly £7.5 billion higher than forecast in the first year, rising to £10 billion higher in the second year, according to the Treasury's ready reckoner.