Sentence examples for had once expected from inspiring English sources

He did not get a promotion and a third star, as many had once expected.

Mr. Widomski said he had once expected "a Prince Charming person coming up and you both fall madly in love".

To get their hands on four out of five of the wanted men was better than they had once expected.

The campaign's first television advertisements there are set to begin on Thursday, a sign that the state is more competitive than the Obama campaign had once expected.

Many opponents of the project had once expected to support Hakeem Jeffries, a corporate lawyer and Prospect Heights resident who ran against Mr. Green in 2002.

And even if it does not pay off in a clear-cut victory, his advisers were already crowing that they were heading into the rest of the nominating contest in better shape than they had once expected.

America's economic downturn is also likely to last a lot longer than had once been expected.

Mr. Kerry won double-digit victories on Saturday in what had once been expected to be Dean country, Michigan and Washington State.

It had once been expected to travel thousands of miles by rail and road to an underground repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Like nearly everything about this race, which had once been expected to be a sleepy affair, the vote count itself had become the subject of much debate.

Paradoxically, the space station is also bad news for the manned space effort that it had once been expected to advance.