Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 2 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 3 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 4 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 5 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 6 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 7 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 8 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 9 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 10 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 11 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 12 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 13 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 14 | He was expected to miss six week 's play . |
| 15 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
| 16 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
| 17 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |
| 18 | The Parti Seselwa , led by Wavel Ramkalawan , which won 4.4 per cent of votes , was expected to secure one seat under a " best losers " system . |
| 19 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 20 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
| 21 | Merseyside Fire Brigade was expecting to receive three times more call outs than normal tonight . |