Sentence examples for expected top from inspiring English sources

As is to be expected, top executives provide a beguiling, if unattainable, standard.

An expected top seed in the tournament turned into a fourth seed.

The 16-team tournament, which features the United States and Brazil as the expected top challengers, will end July 17 in Frankfurt.

He left the job suddenly a few weeks before the 2008 presidential election, although the White House had expected top aides to stay until the end.

Other teams with a particular player in mind beyond the expected top four can feel fairly certain that player will be available at No. 5.

Laurence Lasky, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who spent 20 years as a scientist at Genentech, said he expected top managers of Genentech to leave Roche.

Amec would pay about 9.5 times Foster Wheeler's expected top-line earnings (before interest, tax and depreciation) for 2014.

As expected, top-down control was the primary determinant of algal community structure in this system, controlling abundance and diversity of macrophytes on the upper shore.

He has claimed in court papers that he had been optimistic that Qwest would overcome weak sales because of the expected top-secret contract with the government.

But the company said it now expected top-line growth of 5to6percentent, in contrast to an earlier forecast of 6to7percentent.

The National Audit Office says that as a result, the expected top-up payment by consumers has increased from £6.1bn to £29.7bn.