11.   His earlier predictions of a rebound after two or three years of hardship were too optimistic, he said.

12.   In a statement, management board members Henning Kagermann reiterated an earlier prediction that profit growth will outpace sales growth for the full year.

13.   India, with a population about two and a half times the size of that in European Union countries, is growing much faster than some earlier predictions suggested.

14.   Late yesterday, Quaker said Snapple would lose money this year, belying an earlier prediction.

15.   One earlier prediction proved especially prophetic.

16.   That is several feet lower than earlier predictions and would leave the river below the lowest of the three brides.

17.   The brisk expansion of output elsewhere in continental Europe has confounded earlier predictions of hesitant recovery or worse.

18.   The estimate apparently assumes that inflation will be lower and economic growth a bit higher than in earlier predictions by the budget office.

19.   The forecast, the latest in a string proving wrong earlier predictions for colder weather, further eased concern that lean inventories would enter the new year uncomfortably low.

20.   The new estimate apparently assumes that inflation will be lower and economic growth a bit higher than in earlier predictions.