Sentence examples for less than expectations from inspiring English sources

The overall revision, however, was slightly less than expectations.

Earlier this month, the government reported that consumer prices were stabilizing slightly, cooling fears of deflation, and that retail sales in February had fallen by less than expectations.

The Commerce Department reported that orders for new manufactured goods were up 1.3percentt in July — the fifth increase in six months, but less than expectations of a 2.2percentt increase.

The results proved that under the impact of geological uncertainty, the project's NPV can be considerably less than expectation at a magnitude of 6.70% to 7.34%, as well as some strong deviations of blending grade and tonnage.

Ms. Decker was polite, and said yes, but had less-than-lofty expectations about her date with Mr. Davidman, a financial planner in Manhattan.

Yet although I personally have less-than-zero expectation of achieving anything in 2012 (except maybe getting to the end of it), this total not-botheredness means I am free to offer up a few resolutions on behalf of those families who may be too busy to bother making their own.

Positive values indicate that response residuals exceed expectations of the model, whereas negative values indicate that response residuals are less than the expectations of the model.

That was down from the 0.5percentt increase in July and less than economists' expectations of a 0.7percentt gain.

Excluding those costs, it would have earned 6 cents a share, a penny less than analysts' expectations, according to Thomson Financial/First Call.

The company expects to report that it earned 40 cents a share for the quarter ended Nov. 3, less than analysts' expectations of 43 cents a share.

Millions of dollars worth of Impressionist and modern art by masters like Degas and Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani went for far less than the expectations.