Sentence examples for small revisions to from inspiring English sources
Beside small revisions to their growth estimates in 1998, our forecasters have made one big one: they now think Australia's GDP grew by 4.0% in 1998.
And with home prices falling once more, recovery in housing markets could be farther off than anticipated, and residential investment could prove more of a drag than initially foreseen.Still, these are small revisions to what was a generally good first quarter GDP report.
A recent study of the United Nations Development Project's widely cited Human Development Index (HDI) by the economists Hendrik Wolff, Maximilian Aufhammer and Howard Chong finds that small revisions to the data that go into the index can substantially alter a country's position in the rankings.Part of the problem is that few people pay attention to margins of error.
Further speculations emerged in July 2012 when DigiTimes, with the help of unspecified sources, claimed that Apple made small revisions to the then upcoming iPad and scheduled its release for late 2012.
Some small revisions to the language of the topic guide were made.
These findings probably reflect cultural characteristics of Danes, and have led to small revisions to the Danish DTQP.
Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the small revision to first-quarter growth supported her view that the economy would grow a moderate 2.2 percent for the year, the same as last year.
Analysts aren't expecting any big surprises, but a small revision to the positive side could reinforce optimism over the pace of recovery.
The critics of Oxford's modest revisions to a small dictionary — the book in question is aimed at seven-year-olds — make a convenient reductive leap: that adding "broadband" while deleting "acorn" is a sure sign that the human race is going to the "devil" (subtracted) while holding an "MP3 player" (added).
Summary: The paper is greatly improved and needs only relatively small revisions prior to publication.
In a candid assessment, Robert Chote, chairman of the Office of Budget Responsibility, said Mr Osborne's promises – to reverse tax credit cuts, borrow £8bn less and spend £12bn on capital investment – were based on "small beer" revisions to financial projections that could be wrong.
