    & .D spending is expected to:  ‘fot, the:year_, as compared  to. the previous expectation of.$°4:3 billion          Sentence 2: Spending. on: research -and  development’ is: éxpected ‘te’ -be$-4.4  ion for ‘the. -year..,, compared with the  previous expectation. of $.4.3 billions".   ‘ Se    