had feared
fear
As we had feared, the number is no longer in service. | Como sospechábamos, es un número que ya no existe. |
It's not as bad as we had feared. | No es tan malo como temíamos. |
It's not quite as bad as we had feared. | No es tan malo como pensábamos. |
The bomb has been detonated, and the damage was not as great as we had feared. | La bomba ha estallado, y el daño no es tan grande como esperábamos. |
Now, three years after the measure was ordered and put into effect, we can verify what we had feared: it has made no improvement in the representativity of the Municipal Councils. | Después de tres años de que se ordenó y se puso en vigencia esa medida comprobamos lo que temíamos, que eso no ha representado ningún avance para la representatividad de los concejos municipales. |
These confirm what we had feared about the provisional nature and consequent inevitable incompleteness of the Sterckx report's recommendations and conclusions. | Todo esto confirma lo que nos habíamos temido sobre el carácter provisional e incompleto inevitable de las recomendaciones y conclusiones del informe Sterckx. |
This lacuna has been corrected in the current report, but the passages it devotes to the subject show a worrying situation, as we had feared. | Esta laguna se ha corregido en el nuevo informe, pero los pasajes que dedica a este tema muestran, tal como nos temíamos, una situación preocupante. |
After an intense week of crisis management, the well was capped and, luckily, the environmental damage was less than we had feared. | Tras una semana de intensa gestión de crisis, se logró tapar el pozo, y por fortuna el daño ambiental fue menor de lo que se había temido. |
(DE) Mr President, Commissioner, we can consider ourselves fortunate today that the epidemic did not take the course we had feared, which was that it would cause many deaths. | (DE) Señor Presidente, señora Comisaria, podemos considerarnos afortunados hoy de que la epidemia no tomara el curso que se temía, a saber, que causaría muchas muertes. |
The Commission should use these proposals to prioritise its reaction to the slump in wood sales, for what we had feared is actually taking place, and it is becoming impossible to sell wood. | Por ellas, la Comisión tiene que reaccionar en primer lugar sobre malvender la madera ya que lo que se temía ha llegado, la madera ya no se vende. |
Perhaps they are not quite as brief as we had feared but they are much briefer than what we consider necessary for the European Union to prepare itself sufficiently for the passage from the 20th to the 21st century. | Son algo más extensas de lo que nos temíamos que fueran, pero mucho menos de lo que consideramos necesario para que la UE se prepare suficientemente a pasar del siglo XX al XXI. |
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