Sentence examples for expected a few years from inspiring English sources

It was not the status that Smalls would have expected a few years before his arrest.

Even current players could not have expected a few years ago that Butler would establish itself as a perennial power.

That is better than geologists had expected a few years ago, but slowing the rate of decline has required efforts worthy of the Iron Man.

The three made it to federal court today, but in circumstances different from those that might have been expected a few years ago.

That's certainly much better than anyone expected a few years ago, but it's a far cry from the numbers being tossed about by lawmakers and presidential candidates.

In the end, the reaction to the new currency seems less enthusiastic than one would have expected a few years ago, when economic well-being and civic virtue were more widely believed to emanate from Brussels.

Billions of people will be poorer for a lot longer than they might have expected just a few years ago.

But China's stock market has suffered because growth is slower than many investors expected just a few years ago.

But the company says its first such product, not expected for a few years, will be developed by conventional breeding.

The N.F.L. is conducting its own rigorous study of 120 retired players, with results expected within a few years.

What has been more striking, though, has been the lack of ideological confidence and enthusiasm that would have been expected only a few years ago.