Example sentences of "expect [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 2 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 3 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
| 4 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 5 | The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space . |
| 6 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 7 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 8 | A Japanese boy could now expect to live 75 years , three years longer than a boy born in England or Wales . |
| 9 | vegetarians can expect to live nine years longer than regular meat eaters |
| 10 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 11 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 12 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |