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"Thirdly, the wave is more challenging than was first anticipated, breaking powerfully and quickly on take-off, making it difficult for even early intermediate surfers to enjoy the wave".
It was only doing what it had all but said it was going to do.In truth, the end of cheap money began almost three months ago, when Wednesday's decision was first anticipated.
The journey to recovery and renewal is harder than was first anticipated back in 2008.
Think of the dire warnings of the coming effects of global warming where all the predictions are for extensive coastal flooding first stages of the seas lapping back over our high and dry landscapes as the polar caps ominously begin to melt more rapidly than was first anticipated.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, large variation in reproductive success owing to a skewed offspring distribution can lead to effective population sizes several orders of magnitude below census numbers and the effective size of marine populations might not be as large as was first anticipated (Hedgecock 1994; Hedgecock and Pudovkin 2011).
1 Large-scale behaviour change interventions aimed at promoting safer sexual practices have proven less effective and more unreliable at stemming the tide of the epidemic than hoped. 2 3 It has been far more difficult than was first anticipated to persuade high-risk populations to adopt safer sexual behaviours and practices that serve their longer term interests.
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Physicists have announced the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.
In this paper the hidden process is first anticipated as a non-stationary Ornstein Uhlenbeck (OU) process with unknown parameters that have to be estimated only by use of the information contained in a sample of first-passage times.
However, company insiders noted yesterday that fewer customers were affected than was than first anticipated.
When this interview was first set up, I anticipated a Mad Men-style four-martini lunch, followed by a tour of his old drinking haunts, perhaps only emerging in the middle of the following week.
When my book was first published in 1981, I anticipated some of the new uses of computers and space-age remote sensing in expanding what could be mapped and expediting the making of maps.
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