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Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.

One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.

We're just expected.

Oh? Then, as I expected, I've been around longer than you. This year I'm 20-mumble years old. "What does that tell me?"

A new book expected to come out this semester is about how to avoid financial problems in difficult times.

I understand Italian perfectly, she boasted while choosing a dish from the menu, but when the food was served, it was not at all what she expected.

I had expected stronger resistance from the enemy but if anything there are less of them as we advance to the centre... Don't you think that's strange?

The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.

But she had not expected to cross an ocean, enter a new and romantic-sounding country, and find herself in exactly the same position.

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that no one would have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound.

I expected more classical features, but hers is a beauty that would do well even in this age.

Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.

With the creation of a city area that's more like a town, with plenty of greenery and community buildings, living in the city will soon mean simpler, stress-free lifestyles for the 20,000 that are expected to live, work and play in Edinburgh's Waterfront.

Declaring war after a surprise attack is to be expected, but killing over ten thousand non-combatants with a bomb is something unheard of.

I panicked when I read that they expected big protests in Riyadh today, but then my wife reassured me, saying that she had just bought two bottles of olive oil, ensuring our living standard for months, even if oil prices were to explode.