Example sentences of "expected [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 4 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 5 | The singer , best known for the classic Great Balls Of Fire , was expected two days ago but was said to be furious at taking second billing in the Giants of Rock 'n' Roll concerts . |