Example sentences of "than expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment was higher than expected by 3 per cent or more at Ulster ( 5.5 ) , Liverpool and Queen Mary College , London ( both 4.8 ) , East Anglia ( 3.4 ) and Sheffield , Aberystwyth and the London School of Economics ( all 3.2 ) . |
| 2 | It made 50 per cent more than expected at £5.5m and every lot was sold . |
| 3 | There are innumerable reasons why albums take longer than expected to get into the shops . |
| 4 | If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors . |
| 5 | If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors . |
| 6 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 7 | A weight loss of only 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) in the previous week ( less than expected for the effort put in ) . |
| 8 | SHARES in Waste Management International , the waste disposal group being floated in London by its American parent , were priced a shade lower than expected at 585p yesterday , before jumping to 612p on the grey market . |
| 9 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 10 | That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation . |
| 11 | According to UBS Phillips & Drew , building societies survived the downturn in the housing market better than expected in 1992 ; the brokers forecast that falls in pre-tax profits will average only 7% . |
| 12 | However , the government round it more difficult than expected to cut public expenditure and this , coupled with a desire to reduce taxation in order to increase incentives , meant that the PSBR targets could not be met without an extra source of revenue . |
| 13 | The fact that the Sun is producing far less of these enigmatic particles than expected could well be a symptom that it is going through a quiescent period — although it could equally well be that there is something wrong with our theories concerning what makes the Sun shine . |
| 14 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 15 | The prevalence reported among first degree relatives seems to be much higher than expected from the prevalence in the background populations . |
| 16 | In addition , the majority of Instem 's contracts consist of large operational management systems for data acquisition and control , which in some cases took longer than expected to complete . |
| 17 | The original release date had been January this year but it took longer than expected to complete the re-write and ensure there were no bugs . |
| 18 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 19 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 20 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 21 | Inevitably this procedure , in the early years , worked less than smoothly , with budgets drawn up hurriedly under the pressure of reorganisation , and the Ministry being quite glad on occasion if they were exceeded , since this simply meant that the industry had achieved more than expected with limited physical resources . |
| 22 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |
| 23 | Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 . |
| 24 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 25 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 26 | According to Peter Gyenes , VP and General Manager International , Aviion revenues are now around equal with the proprietary Eclipse range , which dropped off ‘ faster than expected ’ over the last quarter . |
| 27 | He has taken longer than expected to show some of the skills and pace expected . |
| 28 | That we found a lower mortality than expected is not relevant to the paper 's message . |
| 29 | This raised three different problems ( or opportunities , as we say in marketing ) : overall , the quality of the stores was higher than expected by people used to Allied Carpets ' promotional style ; people were not fully aware of the extent of the offer — they did not associate Allied with furniture and beds ; and , in a market where independent retailers are still the dominant factor , they had low expectations of Allied 's standards of personal service . |
| 30 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |