Example sentences of "expect [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam … |
| 2 | We expect 7.5 million orders to be issued against people in England . |
| 3 | People expect these two strata to answer the phone , to draft a memo . |
| 4 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 5 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 6 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 7 | Within the next 20–25 years Anglian expects another nine supplies to go over the limit . |
| 8 | Dell expects fiscal 1994 sales of between $3,400m and $3,700m and net profit of between $3.30 and $3.75 a share , compared with the $2.59 on sales of just over $2,000m reported for the year just ended . |