No one knows how many provisional ballots will be cast, but the total is expected to be large.
There are also expected to be large contingents of travelling fans from elsewhere, with 500,000 expected from Germany alone.
The event was expected to be large enough to be truly disruptive to the southern, Gulf Coast city of about 194,000.
But with only about 20 new officers arriving in the corps each year, the number of female arrivals is not expected to be large.
It is also important to note that the windfield of Irene is expected to be large, affecting areas distant from the immediate track of Irene's center.
The ripple effect, as those employees pare expenses, put off car purchases and delay buying a home, is expected to be large.
Still, the biggest beneficiaries are expected to be large or medium-size growers that have rapidly expanded in the last few years by acquiring the operations of ailing competitors.
The health impact of the forest and peat fires is also expected to be large, with the resulting premature deaths across south-east Asia estimated at 110,000 deaths in an average year.
Ahead of what are expected to be large anti-Berlusconi demonstrations scheduled for Sunday, the prime minister and his loyalists have shifted from defense to attack mode — taking to the airwaves and the front pages to lash out at the Italian judiciary, the center-left opposition and anyone else who might question the prime minister's personal life.
Thus, the surface charging and the potential drop are expected to be large on the negative-y side.
The value of the coherency function is expected to be large for identifying the location and time of energy release.
