Still, elections officials were anticipating record turnout.
This coming Friday offers nothing with much strong commercial potential, but cinemas are nevertheless anticipating record takings.
"We're still anticipating record earnings for 2005 and 2006," said Paris G. Reece III, the chief financial officer of M.D.C. Holdings; he has sold more than $11 million in stock this year, double what he sold last year.
So far, so typical, except this weekend – a four-day bank holiday that began on Saturday 28 April and runs to Tuesday 1 May – the city, already straining under the weight of mass tourism, is anticipating record visitor numbers.
The latest figures from British Cycling, the sport's governing body, suggest that some 2 million people are cycling at least once a week, an increase of 200,000 on a year ago, and the London Bike Show is anticipating record visitor numbers when it opens at the ExCel centre this week 17 200 January, thelondonbikeshow.co.uk).
Latino leaders are anticipating record voter turnout from their community as the realization sets in that the Republican race is led by a frontrunner who calls Mexicans "rapists" and "criminals", and who wants to mass deport millions of undocumented immigrants and then build a giant wall on the Mexican border to keep them out.
I'd read Buddy Guy's 2012 book When I Left Home, anticipating recording a conversation with him that got scuttled by schedules.
It has drawn enormous TV ratings — the U.S.-Portugal game was the most-viewed soccer match ever in the U.S. with 18.22 million viewers on ESPN and 6.5 million more on Univision — and ESPN was anticipating record numbers for its live stream of Thursday's game.
… Like Clockwork is already shaping up to be one of the most hotly anticipated records of the year.
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Issues was released during a week of many highly anticipated records.
