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

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1 Trials are expected to continue for three months .
2 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 .
3 The trial is expected to last for two weeks .
4 ( IRAS , incidentally , is now expected to last for 11 months , until Boxing Day , with a 2 per cent chance of surviving into 1984 . )
5 The hearing is expected to last for three days .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The inquiry , expected to last for four days , continues .
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