11.   The area floods with cars during Braves baseball games, and residents expect worse during and after the Olympics.

12.   They expected much worse.

13.   As voting trends became clear Sunday, government leaders tried to put a brave face on the outcome, insisting that they had expected worse.

14.   But many foreign investors said they expected worse.

15.   But it was a jolting one for a campaign that had expected no worse than a narrow defeat.

16.   Like other test drivers, she had expected worse from an American vehicle.

17.   Still, the Americans had expected worse.

18.   I expected worse.

19.   Despite the damage, officials had expected worse.