Sentence examples for half forecast from inspiring English sources

Roughly half of studies of likely cereal yields over the next ten years forecast an increase, whereas the other half forecast a decline.

This narrowly exceeded expectations and experts are now scrambling to revise second-half forecasts to reflect a growth rate that will likely exceed China's 8% targeted rate.

However, Debenhams said it believed that its second-half forecasts were "robust" and that sales would continue to grow as expected.

The cranes were repaired or replaced in six months, half the forecast span.

Costing nearly £1 billion, this project lacked such cultural vision that it only attracted half the forecast number of visitors.

Orders for durable goods, which include cars, appliances and airplanes, were up 0.2percentt in September, less than half the forecast.

Gross domestic product in Japan rose at an annual 1.7percentt pace in the second quarter, less than half the forecast of economists.

Mr. Coen's decision to reduce his estimate for 2008 came a day after Leland Westerfield, a senior analyst at BMO Capital Markets in New York, sliced in half his forecast for growth in ad spending this year.

Sales were, and still are, half the forecast.

The turnout in Nevada was less than half that forecast by party leaders.

Almost half the forecasts showed yield reductions of 9-18% by 2050.