Sentence examples for expected and only from inspiring English sources

No new proposals for large projects are expected, and only a few bigdevelopers have presented proposals for 1991.

The renovations took longer than expected, and only two of the 42 apartments offered for sale actually changed hands.

True, there have been a few in-game implementations, but fewer than expected, and only a handful of studios are using Kinect capabilities to augment games.

We have seen too many candidates let down by poor recommendations, probably unintentionally, because the person didn't know what was expected, and only wrote a few lines.

But American allies produced no offer of NATO troops for Iraq (not that one was expected), and only the beginning of a debate over whether NATO would help train Iraqi security forces.

Resources For the Future, an American think-tank, looked at regulations on things such as asbestos, power-station emissions and CFCs (refrigerant gases) and found that 12 of the 25 sets of rules it looked at were less expensive to implement than expected and only six were dearer.But some economists think Lord Stern's cost estimates are too low.

But nature often repairs our destructiveness more quickly than we might expect and only a fraction of the pollution remains, colouring beach stones an eerie sulphurous yellow.

But the film, by Carol Stein and Susan Wittenberg, quickly degenerates into cheerleading, serving up exactly the names you'd expect and only the most obvious of insights.

The data watchdog's crackdown on big tech goes much farther than campaigners expected and is only part of a much bigger backlash.

I read the comments of GOP leaders in the House and Senate (which we all expected) and could only shake my head.

It hits all of the expected beats, and only the expected beats with little variation or invention to justify its creation.