Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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1 | Four more applications were received yesterday and the total of 15 is expected to increase over the next day or two . |
2 | He is expected to leave within the next couple of weeks , and his lawyers are understood to be negotiating a settlement . |
3 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
4 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
5 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
6 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
7 | At present , about one in five children is in full-time higher education and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years . |
8 | The number of cars on our roads is expected to double over the next thirty years . |
9 | And Mrs Hazell was going so slowly , she was n't expected to deliver within the next hour or so , and anyway , I had an important appointment to keep . ’ |
10 | European scientists have warned that an ozone hole could be created if a future winter was longer and colder — especially as levels of ozone-destroying chlorine in the atmosphere are expected to rise into the next century . |
11 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
12 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
13 | Despite being without the suspended Hirst , Wednesday 's leading scorer for the past four seasons , Francis fully expects to progress into the next round . |
14 | Splendid , say many politicians : we are saving to finance the pensions the baby-boom generation expects to collect in the next century . |