Example sentences of "expect [num] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season . |
| 2 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 3 | The organisers expect 500,000 spectators to line the route from Blackheath to Westminster Bridge . |
| 4 | That average conceals more than it reveals : the OECD expects seven countries to have real GNP growth of 3% or more . |
| 5 | From this type of starting-point the SDPP expected two things to flow , namely the capturing of a long-term vision within which short-term goals were to be set and , second , a relief in teacher stress . |
| 6 | Women born in 1935–9 with ‘ non-manual ’ fathers expected 2.10 children compared to 2.52 for women with ‘ manual ’ fathers . |