Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 2 | This was expected to affect around 250,000 people and to cost the state between 6,000 million and 6,500 million forints ( about US$80-86,000,000 ) in 1992 . |
| 3 | Its newspaper , Trybuna Ludu , lost 1.7billion zloties ( £382,500 ) last year ; this year it is expected to lose nearly five times as much . |
| 4 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 5 | The annual DMC event is followed on November 10 by the Technics DJ Championship World Mixing Finals at London 's Ministry Of Sounds , which is expected to attract over 1,000 DJs from around the world . |
| 6 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 7 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 8 | CAR giant Ford is expected to announce around 5,000 redundancies this week at its UK plants and factories in Europe . |
| 9 | The main laying is expected to last approximately eight weeks , then the connection of services to properties will take about four weeks to complete . |
| 10 | Iraq was among more than 30 observers at the conference which was expected to last approximately 10 weeks . |
| 11 | In libel trials the threat is of bankruptcy , rather than prison : the action brought by Lord Aldington against Nigel Watts and Count Nikolai Tolstoy is expected to last around three months , and could ruin at least one side . |
| 12 | That investigation is expected to last about 4 weeks . |
| 13 | This increase is expected to last about 18 months at which point a further upgrade will be required . |
| 14 | At the outset of the campaign , allied spokesmen suggested the air-only phase was expected to last about ten days . |
| 15 | The satellite transmitters have an effective life of 10 months , while the smaller radio transmitters are expected to last about 15 weeks . |
| 16 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 17 | The decision was expected to cost about 100,000 jobs in Bonn , and would affect property prices both in Bonn and in Berlin . |
| 18 | The whole bridal party are expected to arrive about ten minutes before the ceremony . |
| 19 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 20 | The Halifax and C&G expect to have just one rise to cope with . |
| 21 | The procedure is expected to take about 5 hours . |
| 22 | The process , which was expected to take about six months beginning in April 1992 , would be voluntary until the situation in Cambodia was clearly non-threatening . |
| 23 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 24 | The procedure is expected to take about 3 hours . |
| 25 | The procedure is expected to take about 2 hours . |
| 26 | In all five , inspections had uncovered fissures in the cooling systems , requiring emergency repairs which were expected to take about three weeks . |
| 27 | This is quite unusual in the music business because most large bands may play one big date in Scotland and people are expected to travel possibly 150 miles . |
| 28 | The plan is expected to involve about 40 redundancies — mainly sub-editors - as management believes the company is overstaffed when compared with new newspapers . |
| 29 | Manager Graeme Souness is expected to make just one change to the side that defeated Blackburn on Sunday , with Ronny Rosenthal set to make way in the starting line-up for match-winner Mark Walters . |
| 30 | Altogether , these 63 centres expect to register over 2,400 students and trainees for the general SVQs , with the largest numbers being for the awards in care ( over 900 ) and hospitality ( around 800 ) . |