The dolphin and trainer communicated much better than we expected.

We also see sharks, much more regularly than I would have expected to.

Sooner than you expected, huh?

But, given the dire circumstances at the outset, we have done far better than could have been expected and, indeed, was expected by many in 2001.

He offered more than could be expected.

It's taking a little longer than I expected.

The assignment took me longer than I had expected.

The math homework was easier than I had expected.

Instead, after successive revisions, world GDP in 2012 is now expected to grow by only 3.3 while inflation is forecast to reach 4 , signaling much weaker global economic momentum than was anticipated. Lower than expected growth and higher than expected inflation have affected most economies.

Illicit networks supplying WMD related materials and technologies have proved to pose a far greater threat than we ever expected before.

Some things, as you can see, went longer than expected.

The expected five year survival is less than five percent.

That one was way more difficult than I had expected.

But we were expected to have doubts we're expected to have fears.

And we expected huge masterpieces!

It's usually 90 percent. So, you tell me you sleep better than expected.

Although the growth in contributions is expected to continue, for 2009, the last year of the plan period, contributions are expected to be less than in 2005, but still 14 per cent higher than in 2004.

So we've built this system where we understand all the parts of it, but we're using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it, and it's gotten a very, very different scale than it was designed for.

The result is opposite to what we expected.

So we had to prevent nuclear war if we expected to survive.

The number of students who were late for school was much smaller than I had expected.

The result, however, will be a NATO compatible army far sooner than might have been expected.

Nonetheless, although progress has been somewhat slower than expected, the unification process in Mostar remains on track.

It is expected that the audit certificates will cover a larger number of sub projects than before.

The people we serve have expected a lot of us.

We are concerned about the fact that, at the current rate of progress, the Goals are expected to be realized only in 2147, rather than the initial target year of 2015.

Government revenues are expected to average less than 400 million per year until 2008 less than half the projected expenditures for public sector salaries and operations.

We tried it out yesterday as expected, it was really good.

Gains could be larger than the total gains expected from all the other negotiating items in current WTO negotiations.

For instance, the reason members resign is related much less frequently than expected to dissatisfaction with the political culture.

The pagans had said, Had God wanted we would not have worshipped anything other than Him, nor would our fathers. We would not have forbidden anything without (a command from) Him. The same thing was said by the people who lived before them. Are the Messengers expected to do more than just preach?

The pagans had said, Had God wanted we would not have worshipped anything other than Him, nor would our fathers. We would not have forbidden anything without (a command from) Him. The same thing was said by the people who lived before them. Are the Messengers expected to do more than just preach?

And the world's population expected to top out at something hopefully a bit less than 10 billion, late this century.

As expected, the rate of reported convictions, which varied significantly, was lower than the rate of reported investigations or prosecutions.

Although the report of the Council opens with an analytical segment, we had expected more substantive information rather than a historical recounting of the events as they happened in the Council during the year.

Given the current expected inflation rate of 2 , the real rate on ten year bonds is still less than 1 . Past experience implies that the real rate will rise to at least 2 , taking the total nominal interest rate to more than 4 , even if expected inflation remains at just 2 .

A request to that effect must be submitted not earlier than 6 months and not later than 2 months before the date when enforcement of the expulsion can be expected.

Much of the world expected more elevated behavior from Obama. Unfortunately, it has gotten a much lower standard than it anticipated.

As several institutions are involved, and given some differences in their structures, coordination of the initiatives is taking longer than expected.

One of the highlights of the meeting was the fact that the Transitional Government of Haiti had more financial resources than expected, as revenues were higher and disbursements lower than anticipated.

And the difference is even more pronounced among men, who are expected to live about 11 years longer than their American counterparts.

Several States reported on the rate of prosecutions during the past year, which, as expected, was lower than the number of investigations.

Of these, only three are expected to finalize their NAPAs earlier than planned, and 14 have had to postpone the completion date.

Not only that we always have this vague notion that something's expected of us.

We actually intended to go to the beach tomorrow, but it's expected to rain.