Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given economic growth and open markets , that figure could easily double in the next five years , and again in the next five , putting China into the top rank of the world 's traders and helping maintain the growth rates of its Asian neighbours . |
| 2 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 3 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 4 | The Secretary of State talked on Tuesday in terms of people moving from one unit to another , and said that it would not be a problem if a unit was closed , because people could simply go to the next one along the road . |
| 5 | The path comes straight down too ; my legs went wobbly long before reaching the bottom , by evening they had stiffened up , and I could barely walk for the next three days ( the boys were alright ! ) . |
| 6 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |