Examples of 'we had expected' in a sentence
Meaning of "we had expected"
Indicates that a certain outcome, event, or situation did not meet or match the expectations or predictions of the speaker. It implies that the speaker and possibly others had anticipated or hoped for a different or more favorable outcome
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we had expected
We had expected concrete recommendations in that respect.
The results were roughly what we had expected.
We had expected this round about now.
Those present were fewer than we had expected.
We had expected a much greater needle fall.
We can say it is better than we had expected.
We had expected to encounter a passionate social activist.
Chunghae defenses are tighter than we had expected.
We had expected you should be greeted.
The pirates are stronger than we had expected.
It was not what we had expected nor what we were used to.
Again more impressive than we had expected.
We had expected a somewhat different procedure.
Demand appears stronger than we had expected.
We had expected this would happen.
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Everything was exactly as we had expected and hoped for.
We had expected your phone call.
I do not want it to happen as we had expected.
We had expected something slightly larger.
Election returns were what we had expected.
We had expected a schism but found only unity.
The victory was even greater than we had expected.
We had expected to see improvements in that.
But it performed so much better than we had expected.
We had expected a much longer day.
Things are spiraling way beyond what we had expected.
We had expected to find no survivors of the agricultural colony there.
We are not selling them at the prices we had expected.
We had expected that you would succeed this time.
They offered a higher price than we had expected.
We had expected such a ruling.
But it was even more shortlived than we had expected.
We had expected there would be some successes at the beginning.
You guys delivered beyond what we had expected.
We had expected this verdict.
Lunch time arrived sooner than we had expected.
That we had expected to pay.
The boat was not quite what we had expected.
We had expected better figures.
This third place is not what we had expected.
We had expected to see more.
Took more time and manpower than we had expected.
We had expected an empty nest.
The merger took much longer than we had expected.
We had expected a return.
We had less snow this winter than we had expected.
That is better than we had expected at some point in the season.
Economic growth turned out to be better than we had expected.
It was as we had expected.
And this was just completely contrary to what we had expected.
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Examples of using Expected
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It is expected that fewer enumerators will be required
Near blizzard conditions expected by midnight tonight
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