Example sentences of "expect [verb] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exact price has not been set , but the 9540 is expected to cost about £20,000 . |
| 2 | The idea is expected to save about £5,000 a year . |
| 3 | Expect to pay about £50 to £60 a case for English wines , which will never be cheap because crop levels are seldom high and most vineyards are small . |
| 4 | If the buyout , which is expected to offer about £160m for the Haig and Claymore whisky group , is completed before that date , Grand Met 's option would lapse . |
| 5 | The house is now for sale at £1.25 million , and the contents are expected to raise about £2 million at auction . |
| 6 | Held at the Assembly Rooms , George Street , the event is expected to raise about £10,000 . |
| 7 | The tax on fuel is expected to raise about £950 million in 1994–1995 and £2.3 billion for 1995–96 , according to Norman Lamont . |
| 8 | This is expected to yield about £200 million in both 1994-95 and 1995-96 . |
| 9 | The Datavision business is expected to make about £5m next year , but then to escalate sharply . |
| 10 | It is expected to produce about £9m which would compare with £16.5m last time . |
| 11 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield pointed out , the scheme is a major one , expected to cost about £60 million and to take four years to construct . |
| 12 | The planned partial flotation of Optus Pty Ltd , Sydney , Australia — expected to raise about $100m and release at least 5% of equity in the company — has been deferred until at least late 1994 : the reason for the delay is said to be to gain more detailed information about market share splits between Optus and the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corp , says the Australian Financial Review . |
| 13 | Intel Corp says it expects to spend about $2,500m on capital expenditures and research and development in 1993 , an increase of 25% on estimated 1992 spending of about $2m , saying that the expenditures , unusually high as a percentage of sales even for a high technology company , are needed to address the increasing complexity of microprocessors and the high cost of chip plants ; the company has started paying a dividend , making its shares attractive to a wider range of institutions , and the expectation is that it will tap the market for new funds . |
| 14 | In 1986 , the Secretary of State for the Environment , Nicholas Ridley , announced the creation of four more UDCs ( see Figure 2 , p. xii ) , each expected to spend about £150 million in the first five years of their existence . |