Sentence examples for could have accumulated from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker raised an eyebrow: "No one man could have accumulated that stuff in so short a distance".

I guess I could have accumulated points to get a P.I.'s license....You really got hooked on the adrenaline of it.

One begins to wonder how much of a pile one could have accumulated by taking a stake in cattle rather than in savings and in pension contributions.

But none of General Pinochet's partisans have been willing to explain precisely how he could have accumulated a fortune while earning a soldier's salary during the 17 years in which he was Chile's dictator.

In the case of the Mubarak family or those acting on their behalf, Mr. Robinson said, the bankers should have questioned how the family of an Egyptian president with a publicly stated salary of barely $1,000 a month could have accumulated so much money.

The model parameterization confirms the position of the source zones among the potential troughs in the bedrock where dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPL) could have accumulated.

The shoebox had been mistakenly stored on a shelf of shoes, and when I opened it I caught an unmissable whiff of smoked hide — a smell that could only have accumulated, molecule by molecule, over the course of years.

He also points out that many of the 450 legislators in the Duma have vast personal wealth they could not have accumulated on their five-figure government salaries, but have never been called to account.

Could they have accumulated mutations inactivating the feedback inhibition?

Given the estimated substitution rate for YFV of ~5 x 10-4subs/site/y (based on the prM/E sequences of 38 African strains) (25 ), the numerous substitutions among the 1995 variants probably could not have accumulated during a single transmission season.

However, in a locally circumscribed freshwater setting, sufficiently high MnII/III concentrations could, in principle, have accumulated.