But he insisted the UK was on target to meet the expectation - set out in its renewable "roadmap" - of the scale of on-shore wind's contribution to UK energy by 2020.

BBC: Ed Davey

We discussed this in an earlier note titled RIM Blows it with Investors Again, Lowering Estimates where we discussed how RIM had failed to meet our expectation of 12 million BlackBerry shipments in the last quarter due to lower-than-expected demand for older models.

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Crucially, none of these children had been predicted to meet the national expectation of reaching Level 2 at the end of Year 2.

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The benefits of the shale gas explosion include the newfound abundant supply which will provide more than enough natural gas to meet U.S domestic consumption needs and provide an expectation for relatively low natural gas prices in the future.

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The expectation was that at one of the season's many social occasions, all chaperoned, she would meet a suitable young man and carry on the old order.

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