Sentence examples for expectations launch from inspiring English sources

Focus Features and Sierra/Affinity is looking at a decent, but slightly below expectations launch for the Charlize Theron-starrer with $18.5 million from 3,304 locations.

But all that hype means it will face high expectations at launch, and Google endorsement drives those expectations even higher.

Unicef's "Great Expectations" campaign, launched at the end of last year, seeks to highlight how easy and cheap it is to prevent tetanus.

A reasonable expectation [of launch] will be the Fall.

Looks like two new Xperia smartphones are headed out of Sony Ericsson labs and into the wild, with an expectation to launch in the third quarter.

But it also means that in any particular game, he had only a.00037% expectation of launching a 56-game hitting streak.

"We have surpassed all expectations in our launch year and loved every moment,' said Katharine Viner, Guardian Australia's editor-in-chief.

The one thing that has not yet exceeded expectations is the launch of Pottermore's interactive zone, which was last week promised for "early April".

Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, said: "Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn't be happier," and added that "sell-through" – where phones are bought by end customers, rather than by mobile networks – had shattered previous figures "by a large margin".

But even by these standards, this week's ITV schedule is notable for challenging and misdirecting expectations, with the launch of two dramas that fail to meet the definitions of those stern TV theologians of the past about what qualifies as "an ITV show", and which also deliberately confuse the viewers about the category of fiction to which they belong.

"It has already exceeded our launch expectations in the pre-launch phase".