While the IRS predicted average hold times in 2010 of 12 minutes, those hold times grew to nearly 17 minutes in 2012.
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While always optimistic, the National Association of Realtors recently predicted average home prices would rise by 5% this year and another 5% next year.
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Real GDP declined by 9.9% between 2007 and 2009, and this year unemployment is predicted to average 13.7%.
They predicted that unemployment will average 7.8% this year and drop to a still unacceptable 6.9% by 2015.
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The report also predicted an above-average risk of a major hurricane landfall in the Caribbean and in the Bahamas.
Industry profits on average are predicted to fall 3% in 2002.
This week the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association predicted better-than-average sales for consumer electronics, led by tablets.
Wall Street analysts, on average, had predicted earnings of 16 cents per share.
It was mid-September when I predicted that the Dow Industrial Average would rally to my annual risky level at 11, 235 by Election Day in anticipation of a Republican House.
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Last month, scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center said Arctic summer ice was almost 30% below the long-term average, and predicted 2007 would show the lowest ice cover on record.
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Gent predicted the state will sustain an average of 15 hours of rolling blackouts a week throughout the summer.
Finally, they evaluate how many students actually finish their degrees in four years, considering both the actual graduation rate (8.75%) and the gap between the average rate and a predicted rate, based on characteristics of the school (8.75%).
Ford does especially well in the quality category: Of 51 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products tested by Consumer Reports, 46 of them earned average or better ratings for predicted reliability.
He then tallies up the dollar value of those past and predicted earnings and compares it to the average daily trading volume in the stock, as measured in dollars, over the previous year.
According to the government's own bovine-tb-impact-assessment, the public costs of carrying out the cull exceed any money saved from predicted falls in bovine TB (an average 16% reduction in new cases over nine years - in absolute figures, this amounts to preventing 47 out of 292 infected herds, for an area about half the size of the Gloucestershire pilot zone).
He predicted that unsubsidized premiums would rise 20 to 50 percent, on average.
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Our central bank has neither prevented nor even predicted this prolonged period of excess inflation, which has so devalued the average pay packet.
One way or another, he predicted, by 2015, broadband capacity will have increased enough that the average household will no longer see the need for a cable subscription.
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For example if they had predicted that their likelihood of being robbed was 30%, but the average likelihood was actually 20%, they might adjust their estimate to 22%.
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In April 2009, when it predicted a surplus of 9.3% of GDP for 2010, the average forecast of five investment banks was 6% of GDP.
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Mexico is already benefiting from a much faster increase in cross-border trade than most economists predicted: its exports to the United States and Canada grew at an annual average of 16% between 1990 and 1998.
The Hometrack report released on Monday predicted that London prices would fall by 5% next year, while prices in England and Wales would rise on average by only 4%.
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