Sentence examples for early expectation from inspiring English sources

"I think the early expectation was that this race was going to be a lot closer than it was," Dr. Adkins said.

Raised in Orlando, he says that an early expectation was that he would become a preacher, in part because of his mother's interests.

That early expectation and the latter-day encounter both involve the maximum amount of happiness that the human frame can take, and both feel perfectly natural and, at the same time, unreal and impossible.

But the early expectation among House Republicans that they could rely on Mr. Bush underscores how much they had pinned their hopes on his candidacy and how uncertain they were about their own abilities to function with a razor-thin majority.

Not since Easy Goer in 1989, not even Arazi in 1992, has there been such early expectation of a preternatural horse's taking dead aim at the Triple Crown and hitting all three targets, a feat that has not been accomplished since Affirmed in 1978.

Our cynicism allows us to be so easily led to the early expectation that this movie will live up to its title, beginning with the rocking of a car in a school parking lot and all that implies.

Contrary to early expectations, oil still oozes from Alaska's beaches, toxins intact, and is expected to remain — perhaps even for centuries.

December (early): Expectations denied.

There were early expectations".

But does the truth match the early expectations?

And if early expectations are any indication, it could be a laugh, or a gaffe.