Example sentences of "expect [num] " in BNC.

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1 Bourne says the company will reach its goal with Solaris 2.3 , due late this year , or with 2.4 , expected mid-1994 .
2 Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam …
3 Other demographic factors which have a considerable influence on household formation are less easy to predict — one is marriage : for example , the 1978-based official population projections expected two-thirds more married men in the 20–24 age band than were actually found in 1985 ( Population Projections 1978–2018. 1980 ; Sparks , 1986 , p. 24 ) .
4 Expect 1993 to be the year of the pen .
5 They only expect 12 around the dinner table these days at the family home at Stanton Harcourt .
6 As expected Oct-1 could be specifically removed from the labelled probe by competition with excess unlabelled octamer binding sites including both the octamer binding site from HPV 16/18 as well as the homologous HSV octamer but not by the binding sites for other transcription factors such as Sp1 and NF1 .
7 We expect 7.5 million orders to be issued against people in England .
8 Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour .
9 At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac .
10 It 's expected 30,000 people will use this pub over the weekend .
11 ‘ I expect 85 to 90 per cent of our business to be corporate , ’ says Mr Nitschke , ‘ which is a very demanding market , so it is important that we are able to meet all its requirements . ’
12 ‘ Young men expect 12,000 rupees ( $750 ) , including a television .
13 And we expect hundreds of people queueing today in person . ’
14 On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) .
15 They expect 1929 to be the best year ever for rubber production .
16 ‘ I 'm sure the All Blacks expect six games against Welsh clubs culminating in an international at the Arms Park to be a hard tour .
17 Only a 1 ' , e' and e " vibrations will be Raman active , so we expect six fundamental bands in the Raman spectrum , only three of which ( due to the three e' vibrations ) should coincide in frequency with IR bands .
18 I expect six hours
19 Women born in 1945–59 expected 2.27 children ; women born in 1960–4 expect 2.33 on average .
20 MIDDLESBROUGH expect 10,000 season ticket holders to back their Premier League campaign .
21 Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season .
22 His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) .
23 We had expected 25 years at the most .
24 I expect one of the old ladies was up there and dropped a fag end or something , and just forgot it .
25 We have invited six major consultancies to submit proposals and expect one of these to be selected , and work to begin , in January .
26 Close all taps expect one HOT water tap
27 Tension is also created when we expect one thing , and something else , quite different , occurs .
28 , I expect one of those will be alright , were they stripy ones we saw the other day ?
29 Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done .
30 I had fully expected one locked room , the woman-of-the-glove 's room .
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