"Our friend said I could expect three percent a week; that's good enough for me."

The authority expects 20 percent, or 5,000, of the 20,000 new residents receiving the letter in the next three months to respond.

"But we didn't expect 90 percent of them to lose."

By the year 2000 the company expects 70 percent of its business to be in Texas.

The two men expect 15 to 20 percent of visitors to the site to sign up when the program goes live.

Maybe you'll bring in some winners with your half, but if you do, we'll expect fifty percent of any take.

The company now expects $480 million in sales, or 20 percent below this year's second quarter.

By contrast, Mississippi, with no close races, expected 30 percent of registered voters to show up.

It expected 5 percent of its policyholders to stop paying premiums and give up the policy each year.

By 2015 the company is expecting 5 percent of their revenues to come from exports.