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

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1 Sun 's 40MHz Sparcstation 10 Model 41 is rated at 50 SPECmarks , 50MHz Models 52 and 54 are expected to go to 80 SPECmarks in single processor configurations .
2 Trials are expected to continue for three months .
3 Alex Barr of Payment Services showed the London Press the £45,000 the Bank would have expected to lose on 31,000 cards over 18 months .
4 Many former rebels were expected to remain within two government development zones covering 25,000 sq km in the south region bordering the San Juan River , to be policed by 300 armed former contras .
5 Use of orimulsion — the controversial high-sulphur oil-shale fuel [ see ED 65/66 ] — is expected to fall by 500,000 tonnes annually .
6 This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually .
7 At a 1 : 1 000 000 scale each overlay consists of 200 Mb of data , a figure that is expected to increase to 500 Mb when the digitization programme is completed in 1989 .
8 The most widely used plastic additives , in volume terms , are plasticisers and consumption in this sector is expected to increase from 984000 t in 1991 to over 1m t by 1996 .
9 All the original crews were expected to volunteer for 45 sorties : by and large this meant in effect that each PFF crew would start a full Bomber Command tour of about 31 ) sorties .
10 In the scenario which the board clearly considers most likely , the ‘ reference case ’ in the middle of the five , maximum demand on the CEGB system is expected to grow from 44.1 gigawatts in 1979/80 to only 46–9 gigawatts in 2000 .
11 As no outright winner is expected to emerge from 15 November 's poll , a run- off will be held on 17 December between the two leading contenders .
12 The trial is expected to last for two weeks .
13 ( IRAS , incidentally , is now expected to last for 11 months , until Boxing Day , with a 2 per cent chance of surviving into 1984 . )
14 The hearing is expected to last for three days .
15 Mr Goldring told the jury on the second day of the trial , which is expected to last for three months , that Bradley had been put on an intravenous drip but in the early hours of the next morning he shouted out , complaining of pain around the drip site .
16 The proposals , are expected to result in 25-30 councils , around half the present number .
17 Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that .
18 The relative contributions may be expected to vary from one city to another .
19 For every 1000 patients admitted to hospital with acute evolving myocardial infarction , about 100 can be expected to die within 35 days .
20 In many cities traffic speeds are now slower than they were in the age of the horse , and in California the average speed is expected to drop for 53 kilometres per hour now to 24 by 2000 .
21 Sales for the next year are expected to drop to 800 units .
22 It is expected to close in five years .
23 Based on present levels of production the usage is 8,000 hours a year but as from next year this is expected to rise to 12,000 hours a year if the sales forecasts are correct .
24 According to estimates prepared in advance of the Assembly [ see also p. 38891 ] , the global average for life expectancy was expected to rise by four months a year over the next five years .
25 At the time of the ban on nuclear power , demand was expected to rise by 1 percent a year .
26 The depth of colour you can expect to achieve in one week will depend on how dark your skin is naturally .
27 The inquiry , expected to last for four days , continues .
28 However , the Council 's forecast in July 1990 of a rise in world wheat production by 28,000,000 tonnes to 564,000,000 tonnes in 1990-91 , with coarse grains expected to rise to 837,000,000 tonnes , was expected to provide limited replacement of stocks .
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