Sentence examples for expected double from inspiring English sources

South has a relatively strong hand, based on the expected double fit in the black suits.

When they electrified service from White Plains to Brewster, they expected double the ridership, but they quadrupled the number of riders".

When Granada took over Anglia, it decided to double the price of its contract with Channel 5. Granada expected "double bubble", Matthew tells me today.

He said he expected double that if both teams made it to Tampa, and he expressed sympathy for Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida.

The festival, which runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., is free and open to the public; last year 3,000 people attended, and Mr. Manna said he expected double that this year.

This is reflected in the fall in average hours worked since the crisis.Figure 2: Employment Rate has fallen since start of crisisNevertheless, unemployment remains at 7.8%  whereas we would have expected double digit joblessness given how sluggish growth has been.

Perhaps the most optimistic news came from General Electric, which expected double-digit earnings growth in 2001.

The 3M Company said on Wednesday that it expected double-digit sales and earnings growth in 2008 and forecast profit slightly above the average Wall Street estimate.

He expected double-digit figures in unemployment, and predicted that the U.S. economy will shrink by four or five per cent between October of 2008 and September of 2009.

Bob Doll of BlackRock, a fund-management group, expected double-digit gains from the American stockmarket; the strategists at Barclays Capital expected a 22% return from European shares.Instead Wall Street is flat and European investors have suffered double-digit losses.

LVMH said that though it expected double-digit growth in revenue and operating income this year, the 13percentt rate in the first two months of 2001 was a considerable drop-off from the 35percentt rate it posted in the corresponding period last year.