Sentence examples for have been miscalculated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tobias said that the sixth-grade scores appear to have been miscalculated because half of the questions on the test were assigned a greater level of difficulty than they deserved.

This led to an exaggeration of the number of herds infected and raised the "possibility" that the crucial incidence rate – that measures the rate of new infections, which had been cited as a reason for the badger cull to be carried out – may also have been miscalculated.

He said he suspected that his tax exemption under the state's School Tax Relief program might have been miscalculated, and an official told him on the phone that he might be right but that the exemption would have to be reviewed at a scheduled appointment with a consultant from Cole-Layer-Trumble.

Of those that did, 13percentt had been miscalculated.

The day ended with officials saying the huge figure had been miscalculated and offering apologies.

An invoice submitted by Vaizey for new curtains and blinds in May 2008 had been miscalculated, apparently by the supplier, to total £278.58 instead of £270.58.

Three weeks before Sullivan's scheduled release, he received a notice from the Department of Corrections stating that his release date had been miscalculated.

But the day ended with officials saying that figure had been miscalculated and the level was actually 100,000 times above normal, still very high but far better than the earlier results.

Three months after Mr. Riccobono was fired, it turned out that reading scores in New York City had been miscalculated, and that those in Mr. Riccobono's district had risen 2.9 points, rather than fallen 1.2 points.

Mr. Tobias said he felt certain that the scores of last year's sixth graders had been miscalculated after reviewing the same students' scores on the reading test they took this year, as seventh graders.

And a tenant at the Jefferson Houses, also in East Harlem, borrowed hundreds of dollars from relatives to try to pay off nearly $1,000 in back rent that had been miscalculated.