Example sentences of "it could reach " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year it could reach 12–15% . |
| 2 | The first stage in each investigation was to list the information the committee required before it could reach a valid conclusion . |
| 3 | By the end of the next century , it could reach around 500 ppm . |
| 4 | Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel . |
| 5 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 6 | The ten-foot-long cylindrical plastic balloon rises as trapped air is heated by the sun , and according to the blurb on its packaging , it could reach extraordinary altitudes ’ up to 30,000 feet if inadvertently released . |
| 7 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 8 | The next day the sun woke them early , beating down from a clear sky , baking those tiles it could reach on the terrace so that the children hopped over them , nimble as cats on hot bricks . |
| 9 | If fertility remains low and life expectancy continues to improve , it could reach 20 per cent by the year 2025 . |
| 10 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 11 | The benefit of this form of publicity is that it could reach those in the home ( women , unemployed , disabled ) and especially those who can not make use of the coverage in newspapers ( i.e. the blind ) . |
| 12 | It found that the company 's true deficit for 1982 was some 200 billion ( CEFE 1984 : 22 ) , a sum equal to roughly 1 per cent of GDP , and that , unless it was checked , it could reach 400 billion pesetas or even higher by 1986 . |