This result was not widely predicted prior to the election.

Analysts had widely predicted that the rate would break 7 percent.

It had been widely predicted that the May deficit would be around $9 billion.

The result was widely predicted, the only real doubt being the likely extent of the National victory.

Hope returned of a new life beyond the slaughter which was being widely predicted for the March election.

Kentucky, as widely predicted, was on the way to Seattle.

And the annual cost would be $16.5 billion had prices, as widely predicted years ago based on an expected shortage, hit $50 a ton.

Yao was widely predicted to be picked number one overall.

This was far less than the drop that had been widely predicted if Coniston lost.

It was widely predicted that for his crime against a child, he would be a pariah in prison.