The agencies raised their concerns about the caseload, even though it is a fraction of the official predictions for coming years.

The autumn statement alters the official predictions of what will happen to the government borrowing and GDP growth.

The machines became widely used for constructing official tidal predictions for general marine navigation.

Her confidence in the official prediction that Jamey was perfectly all right must be fading, Tamara thought.

Mr. Saxonhouse links the stock market's jitters to a Government forecast of 1.9 percent growth in output in 1997, the lowest official prediction ever.

In financial reporting, guidance is a publicly traded corporation's official prediction of its own near-future profit or loss, stated as an amount of money per share.

Treasury Secretary John W. Snow distanced himself on Tuesday from the Bush administration's official prediction that the nation would add 2.6 million jobs by the end of this year.

A ministry spokesman denied that the ministry had made any official prediction about the trade surplus.

One by one, more than 3.9 million people have a chance to make headlines today by defying official predictions about how many registered voters will bother to go to the polls.

The TCSC was sceptical about the Treasury's forecast of inflation dropping to 3 per cent by 1992 given that official predictions have been wrong so often in the past.