EUROPEAN leaders delivered rather more progress in tackling their interminable debt crisis than had been expected when they met in Brussels on June 28th and 29th.
To go there as group leaders was better than could have been expected when England's 10 men trailed to Yevhen Konoplyanka's goal with three minutes to play a year ago.
Last year, Dickey threw about five hundred sort-of fastballs, and only twenty per cent of them came when they might most have been expected — when he was behind, deep in the count.
And the telephone companies dragged their feet every bit as much as might have been expected when it came to making space available in their local exchanges for newcomers' equipment.
Even so, the coalition will attempt to take credit for having extracted more information on pay than might have been expected when Osborne ditched the so-called Walker rules that demanded all pay deals over £1m be published.
The company now operates 14 outlets, 4 retail stores under the Bean name and a children's store -- far fewer than had been expected when the company began its retail expansion three years ago.
