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The phrase "a recount was expected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where there is anticipation or prediction regarding the need for a recount, often in relation to elections or surveys.
Example: "Given the close results of the election, a recount was expected to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "a recount was anticipated" or "a recount was foreseen."
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A recount was expected on Saturday.
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A ruling on an opposition challenge of a recount is expected Tuesday in the same court system that rejected the opposition's case on Monday.
The machine recount was expected to continue through tomorrow.
The recount was expected to continue until midnight, then resume Friday morning.
The recount is expected to take at least a week, according to the country's election commission.
The recount is expected to take six days, but if Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state, has her way, the new tally will not matter.
Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state, who supervised the presidential recount, is expected to announce that she will run for Congress next year.
Full results of the recounts are expected by the weekend.
Well, in a national popular-vote election, a disputable result — one close enough to be theoretically reversible via a recount — could be expected to occur at intervals ranging between once every 640 and once every 1,328 years.
Siegelman insisted on a recount, but Bill Pryor ruled that a recount was illegal, and threatened anyone who attempted a recount with arrest.
The ruling came as a decision from another Florida court concerning a manual recount of some 14,000 disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties was expected.
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