Sentence examples for host expo from inspiring English sources

Dubai then won the right to host Expo 2020 on 27 November 2013.

Dubai spent lavishly on its bid to host Expo 2020, emblazoning its snowflake-like logo on taxis, building facades and shopping bags and sending a national team to plant the UAE flag on the summit of Kilimanjaro.

In the six months from May to October of next year, Milan will host EXPO 2015, the latest in the world series of international expositions, better known as World Fairs.

Pojarski became popular in Montreal after the city hosted Expo in 1967, he said, along with other "Continental" classics like chicken Kiev.

But with the United Arab Emirates hosting Expo 2020, and signs that it is rebounding from the world financial crisis, he has been speaking exclusively to the BBC's Jon Sopel in Dubai.

"After we won the right to host the Expo in 2002, we planned to construct 970 kilometers of underground track in the future and at least 400 kilometers by 2020," said Zheng Shiling, who teaches at Tongji University in Shanghai.

Dubai is to host World Expo 2020.

When it secured the rights to host the Expo seven years ago, the Italian government set aside €1.3 billion for that purpose.

When it secured the rights to host the Expo seven years ago, the Italian government set aside €1.3 billion ($1.45 billion) for that purpose.

Today, though, hosting an expo means much more than buildings.

The urban centre transformed with the building of Place Ville Marie, installation of the Metro system of public transportation, and the hosting of Expo 67.