The term "past projection" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a verb tense that expresses an action or event that is expected or planned to happen in the past. It is similar to the future tense, but for events that are expected to happen before a certain point in the past. Example: "I will have finished my project by next Friday." In this sentence, the verb tense "will have finished" is a past projection, indicating that the speaker expects to have completed the project before next Friday.
In searching for students in new places, Iowa's past projection models were of limited use.
Each such event is constituted by thrownness (past), projection (future) and falling/discourse (present).
In the past, projection units would be the only way to get an image as big as the PlasmaWall screen.
Since a history of past projections enhances the projectibility of predicates only when they are successful, the measure of a predicate's degree of projectibility, which Goodman calls its degree of entrenchment, is the relative frequency of its successful use in past predictions.
Ultimately, the reliability of the forecasting models can be addressed by analysing the success of past projections in either projecting or modifying the future, i.e. reaching a balance between supplies and requirements.
State Senator Kevin J. O'Toole, a Republican from Essex County, said he knew that things were bad based on past projections.
"Kerry's past projections on fuel economy were scary," said an executive from one of the Big Three Detroit automakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
City officials now acknowledge that past projections were too optimistic, but they expect recycling to become more cost-efficient as more New Yorkers sort their garbage.
Explain to students that they will be researching and comparing past projections of the environmental, economic, medical, psychological and geographic effects of Chernobyl to those published in the recent report in order to create public service announcements to help educate this population.
These have recently become popular with large investors looking to diversify away from stocks and bonds.But whereas protection against natural catastrophes tends to be offered for a year or two, longevity bonds are only useful over longer periods enough time needs to pass for past projections to have been proved wrong.
Further, utilities are required under federal law to purchase independently generated power, much of it at astronomical prices based on past projections of "avoided costs" set forth by regulators themselves (and all thoroughly wrong--recall those dire predictions of $100 per barrel oil and bone-dry natural-gas spigots in less than ten years?).
