Sentence examples for had once predicted from inspiring English sources

Bank had once predicted +4%.

Branson had once predicted the maiden passenger flight would take off in 2007.

Even the most ardent critics of Mr. Assad now talk of a struggle of months, and perhaps years, when they had once predicted weeks.

Rather than seeking a new life elsewhere in a mass international "climate migration," as some analysts had once predicted, many of these migrants are now expected to move to nearby megacities in their own countries.

And while the president's advisers had once predicted that the stimulus bill would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent, they were wrong: According to the Department of Labor, it is now at 9.1 percent, a level the White House believes will not abate before the end of next year.

That would be fewer than 1 million more than this year's enrollment -- and significantly lower than what most forecasters, including those at the Congressional Budget Office, had once predicted to see in 2016.

Having once predicted a spike of up to 4percentt, Philips's semiconductor division said third-quarter sales in dollars would not exceed this year's second-quarter result of $1.72 billion.

He took his GCSEs at 15, with the help of a reader and scribe, and passed, though not with the A grades that had once been predicted for him.

The chancellor came to the House of Commons to announce that everything he had once promised and predicted was wrong.

He had once heard a bin Laden adviser condemn a dissident and predict that his life would be a disaster.

He shows that tolerance, pluralism, democracy, and science have not triumphed as once predicted.