Example sentences of "[be] expected [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The satellite transmitters have an effective life of 10 months , while the smaller radio transmitters are expected to last about 15 weeks . |
| 2 | The whole bridal party are expected to arrive about ten minutes before the ceremony . |
| 3 | Some teachers pointed out that many of these aspects of their school were good anyway and therefore the review could hardly be expected to bring about any dramatic improvement . |
| 4 | In all five , inspections had uncovered fissures in the cooling systems , requiring emergency repairs which were expected to take about three weeks . |
| 5 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 6 | That investigation is expected to last about 4 weeks . |
| 7 | This increase is expected to last about 18 months at which point a further upgrade will be required . |
| 8 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 9 | The procedure is expected to take about 5 hours . |
| 10 | The procedure is expected to take about 2 hours . |
| 11 | The procedure is expected to take about 3 hours . |
| 12 | The plan is expected to involve about 40 redundancies — mainly sub-editors - as management believes the company is overstaffed when compared with new newspapers . |
| 13 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 14 | At the outset of the campaign , allied spokesmen suggested the air-only phase was expected to last about ten days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The decision was expected to cost about 100,000 jobs in Bonn , and would affect property prices both in Bonn and in Berlin . |
| 17 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |