The phrase "anticipated at the start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that was expected or predicted to happen at the beginning of a process or event.
Example: "The challenges we faced were anticipated at the start of the project, allowing us to prepare accordingly."
Alternatives: "expected from the outset" or "foreseen at the beginning".
The Headingley Test has become a spicier match than was ever anticipated at the start of the summer.
"It's no secret that the contours of this race have changed from what was anticipated at the start," the memo said, according to the New York Times.
The breakthrough came from an unexpected direction, not anticipated at the start of the research and often unrelated to its initial purpose.
"The truth is that their roles have been reversed compared to what we anticipated at the start," the manager, Marcelino says.
The third possibility, which the scientists said they had not anticipated at the start of their project, is that some of these earliest works of cave art might be attributed to Neanderthals.
The situation is far from what had been anticipated at the start of the season when the three promoted teams were all given odds-on quotes from the layers to go back down.
That my stay at the Rega would finally last for 50 years could hardly be anticipated, at the beginning of an uneventful start of what later could be considered as an equally uneventful career.
As Cass anticipates at the very start of the novel, the president of Frankfurter will respond to this news by asking, "What do I have to offer you to keep you from deserting us for those shmendriks up the river?" As the Coen brothers did in "A Serious Man," Ms. Goldstein takes an aghast yet reverent view of the Jewish culture that gives her novel its best ideas and jokes.
It was much anticipated at the salon.
Lance Armstrong's hotly anticipated appearance at the starting line of the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii this fall has been all the buzz in the niche world of triathlons.
That patients would lose their PHR was anticipated by therapists at the start of the study [ 15], and reflects the negative views of patients' ability among health professionals [ 8, 12, 13, 18].
