Sentence examples for we initially expected from inspiring English sources

"Some of the pricing and merchandising issues in Wal-Mart ran deeper than we initially expected, and they require a response that will take time to see results," Michael T. Duke, president and chief executive, said in a statement.

In fact such a relationship is what we initially expected.

"We initially expected the road to be complete by 2000," he says.

"We've seen traffic rise more than ten times in a year-and-a-half and we're seeing different behavioral patterns than we initially expected".

On the whole, the perception of freight issues by participants in neighbourhood councils was not as negative as we initially expected.

Despite it being early days, iversity nonetheless said it's happy with its early monetizing experiment, adding: "Our expectations have been exceeded and more users participated in the exam than we initially expected.

From these, various biopsies were taken, because we initially expect them to be malignant.

"The upturn looks for real, and its duration, we believe, will be longer than we had initially expected," the broker said.

Analyst Josh Lipman said: Management's rejection of CVC's 950p bid, has led us to consider that there could be considerably more upside to pricing changes than we had initially expected.

While storm surges causing moderate and localized major flooding had been forecast for this afternoon, "It seems to have come in under what we had initially expected, which is a good thing," said David Stark, a meteorologist with the Weather Service's Upton, N.Y., office.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said low-lying areas had survived high tide on Wednesday afternoon without being inundated all over again, and a National Weather Service forecaster, David Stark, said the high tide had "come in under what we had initially expected, which is a good thing".