Writing out all the invitations by hand consumed more time than we had expected.

手写所有的邀请函花的时间比我们预计的更多。

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Researchers concluded from their studies that the harm brought by pollutants was much severer than we had expected.

研究人员从他们的研究中得出结论，污染物带来的危害比我们预想的要严重得多。

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He earned more than we had expected.

他挣的钱比我们预料的要多。

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"We saw these attacks carry out with more ferocity than what probably the government had expected,".

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The impact of the recalls was smaller than we had expected, supported by sales-promotion measures.

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With respect to TARP specifically, I think you saw stories today and you've seen stories over the last several weeks that TARP has turned out to be much cheaper than we had expected, although not cheap.

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This is expected to result in higher DVD shipment costs for Netflix than we had originally expected.

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