Example sentences of "be expect [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The proceedings are expected to last 2 days .
2 The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks .
3 This season the company has exported 640,000 tonnes of cereals and malt , while imports for the year are expected to exceed 200,000 tonnes .
4 Grade 7s and above are expected to give three months .
5 Those projects are expected to create 1,294 jobs .
6 Executives going on the course are expected to do 20–30 hours pre-work , in which they read the book and , with the help of questionnaires , assess themselves , their management styles and values .
7 And some bidders are expected to buy 2 tractors , so they can get their collection off to a good start .
8 From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 .
9 Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks .
10 Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor .
11 Ah yes it could be that you 're expected to do thirty hours a week .
12 ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’
13 ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones .
14 Katharine will be expected to make two speeches during her visit , but for now she 's practicing the most important phrase : thank-you for having me .
15 Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months .
19 The hearing is expected to last 10 days
20 The Congress , which is expected to last 10 days , is due to consider the economic crisis and hear a state-of-the-nation report from Mr Yeltsin .
21 The hearing is expected to last four days .
22 The inquiry is expected to last six weeks .
23 Mary Fone , 35 , of Bebington Road , Birkenhead , Wirral , will stand trial on November 1 and the case is expected to last two weeks .
24 It is expected to last two months with a break between June 19 and July 7 .
25 The inquiry , which will be held in Northallerton and Marton , near Middlesbrough , is expected to last two months with a break between June 19 and July 7 .
26 The inquiry , which starts in Northallerton on May 19 , is expected to last two months although the inspector 's decision is not likely to be known until early 1993 .
27 Christopher How 's trial is expected to last ten weeks .
28 The trial is expected to last ten days .
29 The trial is expected to last 2 weeks .
30 The trial , the first of its kind , is expected to last three weeks .
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