Example sentences of "expect to exceed [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number taking part was expected to exceed 100,000 . |
| 2 | Unemployment had risen from 80,000 to 400,000 over the previous 12 months and was expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 3 | According to figures released by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and published in Le Monde of May 2 , the number of refugees worldwide was expected to exceed 15,000,000 during 1991 . |
| 4 | And English Language Teaching at Longman which is of course the biggest er biggest profit contributor erm their blueprint sale is expected to exceed nine hundred thousand this year . |
| 5 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 6 | This season the company has exported 640,000 tonnes of cereals and malt , while imports for the year are expected to exceed 200,000 tonnes . |
| 7 | Last year turnover was 4.4 million while this year 's figure is expected to exceed 6 million . |
| 8 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |