Example sentences of "[be] expected [to-vb] at least " in BNC.
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1 | They are expected to take at least 30 years to mature . |
2 | The compact disc is sponsored by the insurer Legal & General and the royalties are expected to raise at least £25,000 for the Aids charities and projects the Trust supports . |
3 | Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks . |
4 | A director will also be expected to undertake at least some administrative duties . |
5 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five-year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to demonstrate at least the same level of competence covering their experience , skills and knowledge as when they initially joined the panel , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to medical negligence work . |
6 | Staff at executive and managerial level were expected to speak at least two foreign languages ; German and English or French ) . |
7 | The conference is expected to last at least three months — but by the end of it the Department of Transport may have a publically acceptable solution to Hereford 's traffic jams . |
8 | — The public inquiry is expected to last at least two months and three pre-inquiry meetings have been held two in Northallerton and one in Marton , Middlesbrough . |
9 | The inquiry runs from Tuesday to Thursday ( 10am-4.30pm ) and Friday ( 10am-2pm ) each week and is expected to last at least two months . |
10 | This means that average household size in Great Britain fell from about 3.21 to about 2.56 persons over this period and this decline is expected to continue at least until to the end of the century ( Social Trends 10 , 1979 , Table 2.3 ; General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ; Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
11 | Although the Sardar Sarovar dam is only partly complete , the rise in water level caused by the forthcoming monsoon rains is expected to drown at least four villages . |
12 | Andersen has a net book value of $14m , and the listing is expected to raise at least $25m , or approximately £17m at current exchange rates . |
13 | In a development that is expected to have at least some impact on the current jockeying for positions between the Unix factions , a 200-person UK software engineering firm , Praxis Systems plc , Bath , has now completed an evaluation ANDF installer for the Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , which it says , ‘ exceeded the original performance targets . ’ |
14 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
15 | Last night , the League was expected to have at least 26 seats in the 315-seat Senate and at least 60 in the 430-seat Chamber of Deputies . |
16 | The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 . |