Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [to-vb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 2 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
| 5 | A reconstruction programme , calculated to cost at least US$10,000 million , was expected to take several years . |