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a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 237 He left all his female kindred..either matched with peers of the realm actually, or hopefully with earls' sons and heirs.

1846 H. Rogers Ess. (1860) I. 171 The limits within which the human understanding can hopefully speculate.

1899 N.E.D. at Hopefully Mod. He set to work hopefully.

1932 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 24 Jan. 11/4 He would create an expert commission..to consist of ex-Presidents and a selected list of ex-Governors, hopefully not including Pa and Ma Ferguson.

1965 T. L. Becker Pol. Behavioralism & Mod. Jurisprudence p. v Hopefully, this study, generated from the friction of highly polarized viewpoints, is the first of many steps directed towards satisfying a long-standing curiosity.

1965 New Yorker 27 Mar. 35/1 We asked her when she expected to move into her new apartment, and she answered, ‘Hopefully on Tuesday.’

1966 in N. P. Vakar Word Count Spoken Russian p. viii Professor Vakar's study will prove of enormous value... It should—and, hopefully, it will—be followed by a similar analysis of..syntactic patterns.

1967 Lebende Sprachen 12 5/1 Machines will hopefully enable the scientist to find quickly the information he needs.

1969 Language 45 667 Hopefully, Tucker will publish supplements to this chapter.

1970 Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 21 The cost of developing a new ‘Dash 50’ series of engines, that hopefully will power Lockheed's ‘extended range’ jet, is put at around £75 million.

1970 Sci. Jrnl. May 27/2 By the time this issue..is on the bookstalls, Apollo 13 should have completed its own trip to the Moon, hopefully with as little incident as its two predecessors.

1971 Guardian 13 Apr. 9/5 Prototype wooden rocking horses... Hopefully they will be available in the autumn at prices from £120.