Harry Hanley, Unison branch secretary, said he expected the job losses to be greater than predicted.
And those losses are coming more quickly than predicted, primarily in the once-prodigious oil fields of the North Sea.
The unemployment rate continued to drop in January from 8.5% to 8.3% as the economy added 243, 000 jobs, higher than predicted.
Heads have said it was "outrageous" to blame teachers for the fiasco which saw thousands of pupils get lower grades than predicted.
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Government borrowing will be slightly higher than predicted this year and next.
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The United States will effectively lose a key supplier when Mexico becomes a net oil importer, which is happening much sooner than predicted.
However between 500 and 600 miles (800 and 960 km) there is more space debris than predicted, no one knows why this is so.
Firstly, of course, it may be that your preferred university or college will accept you with the grades you have, although marginally lower than predicted.
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Cripe believes that adoption will be faster than many industry executives assume but that it will be more chaotic than predicted by advocates of driverless technology.
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As the new financial year progresses with continued chaos in the eurozone and recovery slower than predicted, there is no guarantee that the fiscal landscape will improve.
That is less than predicted by Brazil's finance ministry, which cut its growth forecast for 2012 to 2% this year, down from its previous forecast of 3%.
Global greenhouse gas emissions have risen even faster during the past decade than predicted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other international agencies.
In fact they had 2, 266 deaths, 333 more than predicted.
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Office for Budgetary Responsibility chief Robert Chote said growth had been slower than predicted when the coalition came to power because of "disappointing" consumer spending, business investment and trade.
Initially the garden attracted more visitors than predicted but in following years, numbers dropped to nearly half of that forecast forcing the management of the garden to look for further funding.
Investment across Scotland's farms in 2012 was higher than predicted at the start of the year. 45% invested in plant and equipment, after only 28% stated last year that they planned to do so.
Still, the consumer held up better than predicted.
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"The failure rate was higher than predicted as part of the certification process and the possibility that a short circuit in a single cell could propagate to adjacent cells and result in smoke and fire must be reconsidered, " said Deborah Hersman, the head of NTSB.
He certainly got a lot more companies to participate in the drug benefit than anybody had expected, and more seniors to sign up than people had predicted at lower premiums than anyone had predicted.
Todd takes comfort, however, in the strength of the economy, which is growing faster than originally predicted.
Many more than the predicted 1, 000 Orangemen marched away, cheered and applauded by thousands more lining their route.
We do know that the Arctic ice cap is melting faster than was predicted even five years ago.
Corporate profits have surged and continue to grow far more than experts predicted.
The firm admitted on September 29th that its third-quarter earnings may be roughly a quarter less than previously predicted.
What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago.
Experience from previous natural disasters, such as earthquakes, suggests that they often have less impact than was predicted at the time.
Scientists in Spain have managed to produce measurements that are more precise than those predicted by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
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Global population is expected to hit eight billion around 2025, which is to say about ninety-five years later than Knowlton predicted.
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