D. James Expected Quotations

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

He would have been the last one I would have expected to score. Even behind the goalie.

Steel costs are expected to increase another 20 percent this month alone.

This went as well as I could have ever expected. I never expected this (the triple-double).

A firmer trend in house construction is expected to take hold later this year, extending into 2007. Approvals probably rose in February, underpinned by a rebound in the apartment sector.

If rural exports lift as expected in coming quarters and support expanded export capacity in the mining sector, the much fabled improvement in Australia's trade accounts will be a step closer.