Collocations withforecast
These are words often used in combination withforecast.
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budget forecast
The amount by which metropolitan authority spend has exceeded their budget forecast for 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03 is as tabled.
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detailed forecast
Certain trends one can identify, and certain actions can be based on them; but detailed forecast is completely impossible.
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flood forecasting
Furthermore, their potential occurrence at any time during a day or night also necessitates 24x7 operations for flash flood forecasting and warning.
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forecast error
Apparently, the increase in forecast error from using additional, poorly estimated parameters outweighs the reduction in residual variance from including additional information in the model.
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forecast period
Continuing from the previous section, 1953:2- 2000:1 is the in-sample estimation period and 2000:2-2001:4 is the forecast period.
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gloomy forecast
His gloomy forecast of what will happen in the next four years makes me feel that the opening speech today was all the more regrettable.
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long-range forecast
I would prefer not to make any long-range forecast.
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long-term forecast
It is not possible to make any long-term forecast of the volume of motorcar exports.
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official forecast
In that case the official forecast erred on the pessimistic side.
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optimistic forecast
As to the reference to reduction in expenditure on employment, presumably this is not a very optimistic forecast.
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pessimistic forecast
That was a very pessimistic forecast but, unfortunately, some of those features reflect what we have lived through in the past three years.
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previous forecast
It gives me no pleasure in principle to see the growth of public expenditure rising above the previous forecast.
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revised forecast
In 1996 a revised forecast of £2.69 billion was made.
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