Sentence examples for had expected over from inspiring English sources

"Morrisons performed better than we had expected over Christmas and there is no whingeing about the weather," said Philip Dorgan, analyst at Altium Securities.

With no bidder willing to put up $3.7 billion to pay off the mortgage, CWCapital had expected to take over the property.

The Women's United Soccer Association lost $40 million in 2001, its first year of operation, roughly the total it had expected to lose over four seasons before becoming profitable.

But some economists had expected the spill-over effects to come closer to balancing out the job losses.

Before the March election, most politicians had expected the negotiations over a new government to drag on for weeks, and probably longer.

The minutes also said that policy makers had expected economic conditions over the summer to have been much better than they turned out and that the Fed was downgrading its projections for economic growth for 2011 and 2012.

Last February, the rail authority had expected to hand over 100% of the parcels in the Fresno construction segment by June 2018.

The National Science Foundation, which supports basic research at universities, had expected a $400 million increase over the $5.7 billion budget it received in 2006.

Its core business, not including Motorola, had net revenue of $8.36 billion, less than the $8.41 billion that analysts had expected but up 21 percent over last year.

Speculation still continues about his future after an announcement of his retirement, which many had expected, failed to materialise over the weekend.

Just as I had expected, "Gilligan's Island" was over.