Expectation has been replaced by grim resignation.
More recently that median expectation has been rising.
Our audience expectation has been dulled in the last decade".
But the expectation has been that it will become so, before long.
The general expectation has been that liberal parties will fare poorly, due to inexperience and division.
southowramonsea: I feel too much expectation has been put onto Bilbao after last season.
This expectation has been woven so deeply into the fabric of daily life, by so many generations of cheese eaters, that the market for it is guaranteed.
This expectation has been exceeded and the entire experience will be extremely useful to my lesson planning and to the students I teach.
In part because the level of expectation has been ramped up, with punditry increasingly a distinct form of entertainment its own right.
In the past decade, however, that expectation has been challenged by expansion and integration in the EU, and by a confident independence movement in Scotland.
Suffice to say, then, that a not-inconsiderable weight of expectation has been heaped onto O'Neill for her second novel, Asking for It.
