Example sentences of "[adv] expect [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Site services manager Jilly Cailes thanked those who turned up expecting to fill 1,000 balloons with helium , including students from Sudbury Upper School and representatives from the town 's Volunteer Centre . |
| 2 | Amdahl is now expected to deliver two lines of multiprocessing Sparc systems which it will announce later this year . |
| 3 | The hearing , which was originally expected to last six weeks , became one of the world 's longest medical disciplinary proceedings , with McBride himself spending nearly seven weeks under cross-examination . |
| 4 | A Japanese boy could now expect to live 75 years , three years longer than a boy born in England or Wales . |
| 5 | They are now expecting to build 40,000 houses a year by the mid-90s . ’ |