"expectation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This expectation reached a fever pitch after the weak employment data for September was reported Oct. 2 and investors bought Treasury bills and short term notes, driving the prices up and the yields down.
- Towards the end of the war the expectations of reform reached new peaks; the increasing prospect of peace focused the mind.
- Consumers continue to say that the current economic situation remains relatively good, but their expectations for the coming six months have reached an eight-year low.
- As I sunned myself at the nearby Sandy Lane hotel, expectations reached fever pitch.
- For example, when expectations for volatility reached similar levels in 1993, the index stayed near 10 percent for more than two years.
- These expectations reached a fever pitch during the reign of Ferdinand II of Aragon between 1480 and 1513.
- Anyone replacing Craig Brown was going to have a difficult job - expectations for the Scottish national team were, at the time, to reach the group stages of a major tournament and with a bit of luck and hope, reach the knockout stages.
- In a market where expectations can quickly reach unrealistic proportions, Isringhausen figures to capture the imagination of a franchise and city looking for a new baseball hero.
- My expectations, I couldn't reach them.
- Unrealistic American expectations of Christmas snow reached peak intensity in World War II, thanks to "White Christmas," which filled a powerful wartime need for separated family members to express melancholy yearnings at holiday time.
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