These expectations grew as the turmoil in financial markets increased the risk that economic growth could slow more sharply than expected.

No other expansion team had taken so long to win back-to-back games and expectations in the third season were growing.

As health care reform eluded the politicians, public expectations of medicine only grew.

I'd expected something, and the expectation had been growing all afternoon, but nothing that justified the frantic urge in Sam's voice.

People's expectations grow and government's responsibility is to meet those expectations.

Against that deterioration, expectations of a new agreement grew, reaching a high point last week.

He might have especially felt this pressure as the years went by and public expectation grew with the wait.

The expectation was growing too great to contain any longer.

Rational expectations grew, in part, out of an attempt to understand actual trading on stock exchanges.

Such expectations grow from an understanding of the docent's power.