Example sentences of "it expects [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 2 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 3 | Dallas , Texas-based NetWorth Inc warns that it expects lower than expected sales and net profit for its third quarter to March 31 — turnover will be about flat with the $4.4m of the second quarter , and profits down about breakeven ; the company blames the fact that it is converting an element of its Series 4000 products to a new Ethernet implementation and is experiencing unforeseen limitations of critical sole-source components . |
| 4 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 5 | But recovery , the OECD argues ( with a familiar ring ) , is just around the corner : it expects average growth next year to rise to 2.7% . |
| 6 | It expects 1992 's growth to decline one point on 1991 , forecasts 20% for 1993–95 , with 10% for the two years after that . |
| 7 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
| 8 | Olivetti will continue to supply Hitachi Ltd mainframes in Italy , though it expects top-of-the-range Alpha systems to take sales away from the Japanese kit . |
| 9 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 10 | Morland has also issued new profit forecasts today showing that next year it expects pre-tax profits to rise by twenty-eight per cent . |
| 11 | Morland has also issued new profit forecasts today showing that next year it expects pre-tax profits to rise by twenty-eight per cent . |
| 12 | And by the end of the year , it expects further sites to be fully operational in Spain and Italy . |
| 13 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 14 | When a mite climbs on to a worker ant 's chin , it expects more than just a free ride ( photographed at about 20 times life size ) . |
| 15 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc warns that it expects third quarter after-tax margins to be in the range of 3% to 4% as it follows pricing strategies intended to lead to increased unit sales while it reduces operating expenses as a percentage of sales — its strategy for pricing and market share expansion is expected to hurt its near-term earnings it said , noting that the new Premmia line , launched in the UK yesterday , is priced 10% to 20% below rival models ; it also said it was evaluating its pricing , especially in Europe . |
| 16 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 17 | And it expects high standards from its performers : |
| 18 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 19 | Investing heavily in eastern Germany and more cautiously in Hungary and Czechoslovakia , it expects another good showing from Germany in 1992 as housebuilding progresses despite economic slowdown . |
| 20 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 21 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |
| 22 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 23 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the PICA chip set and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a fivefold performance leap over 66MHz Intel 80486DX2 machines . |
| 24 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the ‘ PICA ’ chip and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a five time performance leap over 66MHz Intel 486DX2 machines . |
| 25 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |
| 26 | It expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September . |
| 27 | It expects packaged Unix software sales to grow by a compound rate of 22% a year to 1997 in Europe . |
| 28 | It expects packaged Unix software sales to grow by a compound rate of 22% a year between now and 1997 in Europe . |