Example sentences of "expect [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 32 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 33 | For instance , the discount example expected one parameter ( the retail price ) to be passed to it . |
| 34 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
| 35 | The company expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September , with more rolling out over the course of the year . |
| 36 | It expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September . |
| 37 | Fifty thousand went to America last year , the stricter regulations there have switched attention to Israel , which expects three quarters of a million in the next five years . |
| 38 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 39 | CIOB , CIBSE and RICS all look for 20 hours per year , while the RTPI expects 25 hours . |
| 40 | Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees . |
| 41 | Alameda has worked with the navy for a long time , and 8,000 jobs would go if it closed ; Everett expects 6,000 sailors and their families to arrive when it is finished , and has built most of the infrastructure . |
| 42 | That average conceals more than it reveals : the OECD expects seven countries to have real GNP growth of 3% or more . |
| 43 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 44 | Women born in 1945–59 expected 2.27 children ; women born in 1960–4 expect 2.33 on average . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | ‘ I thought the horses I was riding had each way chances but I never expected four winners . |
| 47 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |
| 48 | Women born in 1935–9 with ‘ non-manual ’ fathers expected 2.10 children compared to 2.52 for women with ‘ manual ’ fathers . |