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1 In the United States , the encyclopaedia was launched early in 1991 at US$399 but the price is expected to fall to about US$299 by the end of the year .
2 In 1991 sales are expected to slip to around 13.5m .
3 From 1989-90 to 1993-94 , reserves are forecast to increase by just £7m , of which £4m comes from capital revenue ( ie , disposal of assets ) .
4 Altogether — including the logo design , new stationery ( and , in some cases , new shop fronts ) the cost of the new identity is expected to come to about £600,000 .
5 The supply from waste/recycled resources is expected to increase to over 70% of regional aggregates consumption by 2011 .
6 The game currently turns over $3.5 million a week , which is expected to increase to around $8 million a week within two years .
7 While the Barcode Battler is expected to sell for just £40 , and software comes free , it could add thousands of pounds to the family shopping bill .
8 Exhibited internationally twenty times , it is expected to sell for around £2.5 million ( $4.25 million ) , unless previously purchased for the nation .
9 You 'll get little change from £40,000 for the 300SE , the 500SE is expected to sell for around £60,000 while the flagship 600SEL ( the short wheelbase model wo n't be sold in Britain ) is expected to be close to £80,000 — £22,500 more than the rival 750iL BMW .
10 The first Apple Computer Inc PowerPC systems are expected to sell for under $2,000 — these will be true Macintosh systems running Macintosh applications .
11 FERRANTI 'S shares return to active trading today after a three-week suspension and are expected to open at around 45p .
12 The TVT1 decoder is expected to retail for under $300 .
13 It is found in the rivers of Colombia and Peru , and in the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 130mm .
14 In the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 13cm .
15 L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it expects ‘ considerable improvement in profits in 1993 ’ : it expects the strong order intake seen last year to continue despite a recession and notes that orders for Ericsson 's mobile systems , which grew by 58% in 1992 , are expected to grow by around 60% in the current quarter .
16 Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ .
17 THE cost of the IRA 's 86-hour bombing blitz is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months .
18 Today is Pentium launch day when the likes of NCR Corp , Unisys Corp , Compaq Computer Corp and some two dozen other companies take the wraps off their first Pentium machines , but there is not much point in their making too much noise about it — Intel Corp expects to ship only about 10,000 Pentium chips to customers through June ; machines are generally expected to start at about $5,000 , but the Wall Street Journal hears that Advanced Logic Research Inc will announce a basic Pentium box for about $3,000 ; Compaq also plans an $18,000 Pentium version of its SystemPro server .
19 Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks .
20 Andersen has a net book value of $14m , and the listing is expected to raise at least $25m , or approximately £17m at current exchange rates .
21 The compact disc is sponsored by the insurer Legal & General and the royalties are expected to raise at least £25,000 for the Aids charities and projects the Trust supports .
22 Although earnings slipped from 8.1p to 17.6p last year due to a much higher tax charge , they are expected to improve to about 20.3p a share in the current year .
23 According to PC Week , the Alpha desktop workstation will include three Turbochannel expansion slots , 16Mb to 128Mb of memory , integrated Ethernet , ISDN and a SCSI controller and is expected to begin at about $18,000 ; the Alpha data centre system , with one to six processors to generate performance ranging from 175 to 900 SPECmarks , offers input-output at 100Mbytes to 400Mbytes per second through a multichannel Futurebus+ and as much as 14Gb of memory , priced at some $200,000 and up .
24 By the end of 1994 , the group plans to have 62% of lines equipped to provide ISDN service , up from a projected 55% in June of last year , while this is expected to rise to nearly 68% by the end of 1995 .
25 That rose to £24 million out of £168 million last year and is expected to rise to nearly £28 million out of £193 million by 1997/98 .
26 Remy , which last year acquired the Heidsieck champagne business , has an annual turnover of around £340million which is expected to rise to roughly £450million in the year to next March .
27 So Bennett was instructed to go to AM Sir John Slessor , Commander-in-Chief , Coastal Command , and literally fight it out for their share of the new 3cm H2S .
28 But it began to look as though they were destined to attend at least part of the party .
29 Except for a brief period in September and October when prices threatened to fall to below $400 , platinum remained close to $500 an ounce for much of the year .
30 Partners in the effort are thought to include at least Hewlett-Packard Co , IXI Ltd , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc with IBM Corp said to be ‘ considering its position . ’
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