Sentence examples for expected close to from inspiring English sources
His final report, originally scheduled for the end of 2005, is expected close to the budget on March 21st.The extension of Sir Michael's inquiry was prompted by a volte-face by the government 18 months ago.
When the Pennsylvania 500 is to be run Sunday, the 20th race of the 36-race Nextel Cup season, more than 105,000 fans are expected, close to a sellout.
Meanwhile, AnnTaylor Stores said August same-store sales increased by 2.9%, surprising analysts polled by Thomson Financial, who expected close to a 2% drop for the women's clothing retailer.
German drugs and chemicals group Merck said it expected close to 500 million euros ($641 million) in peak sales of its new colo-rectal cancer drug Erbitux, more than previously predicted.
For application to these instruments, a candidate refractory material, tungsten, was studied, confronting conditions similar to the ones expected close to the Sun: high radiative flux leading to high temperatures (1100 2500 K) and proton bombardment (1 and 4 keV; 1016, 1017 and 1018 ions m−2 s−1) to simulate the solar wind in high vacuum (10−4 Pa).
For the cases corresponding to (virtually) no temporal spacing (rightmost and leftmost points on figure 2), the proportion of significant runs for all tests was, as expected, close to the chosen nominal value (5% and thus not apparent on figure 3B).
Church officials say they expect close to 10,000 journalists for the Olympics.
Hargreaves expects close to 30% appreciation over the next twelve months, regardless of the weather.
Rather than working 80 to 100 hours a week, these career associates can expect closer to 40 hours.
Now they're expecting closer to a 50-50 mix.
