Example sentences of "expect [verb] about [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 2 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 3 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 4 | That investigation is expected to last about 4 weeks . |
| 5 | This increase is expected to last about 18 months at which point a further upgrade will be required . |
| 6 | At the outset of the campaign , allied spokesmen suggested the air-only phase was expected to last about ten days . |
| 7 | The satellite transmitters have an effective life of 10 months , while the smaller radio transmitters are expected to last about 15 weeks . |
| 8 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 9 | The decision was expected to cost about 100,000 jobs in Bonn , and would affect property prices both in Bonn and in Berlin . |
| 10 | The whole bridal party are expected to arrive about ten minutes before the ceremony . |
| 11 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 12 | The procedure is expected to take about 5 hours . |
| 13 | The process , which was expected to take about six months beginning in April 1992 , would be voluntary until the situation in Cambodia was clearly non-threatening . |
| 14 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 15 | The procedure is expected to take about 3 hours . |
| 16 | The procedure is expected to take about 2 hours . |
| 17 | In all five , inspections had uncovered fissures in the cooling systems , requiring emergency repairs which were expected to take about three weeks . |
| 18 | The plan is expected to involve about 40 redundancies — mainly sub-editors - as management believes the company is overstaffed when compared with new newspapers . |
| 19 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 20 | The unit expects to make about 300 arrests this month alone . |