Double the expected number of people came to the meeting.

出席会议的人数比预期的多一倍。

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A much smaller number of students passed than I had expected.

通过考试的学生比我预计的少得多。

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The number of employees other than current department heads who could take on the position of department head is equal to only about half of the expected vacancies.

除现有部门主管外，能够担任部门主管职位的员工数量仅相当于预期职位空缺的一半左右。

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The number of cancer cases and deaths from cancer are expected to increase one percent each year.

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Well, let's do the smoke test number one: is the mean more or less what we expected?

好了，让我们先做1号发烟测试：,这个平均值是和我们想要的答案差不多吗？

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By the year 2025 the number of smokers worldwide is expected to increase by 45%.

到2025年,预计世界范围吸烟人数,将增长45%

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However, NHS Lothian said the number expected to be offered treatment outside Scotland would probably be low.

BBC: Some NHS Lothian patients 'could be sent to Europe'

Its troops are fighting alongside nearly 3, 800 African soldiers, it said, a number expected to go up.

CNN: French troops kill 'hundreds' of Islamist fighters in Mali

The actual number of new jobs was not even half the number expected.

FORBES: Look, Ma, I Found 923,000 Jobs and $48 Billion