Sentence examples for could have amassed from inspiring English sources

Regional newspaper group Archant has reported a 40% fall in profits for 2012, and admitted that it could have amassed £13m in unpaid taxes over the past decade.

Shakespeare's authorship has come under increasing fire in recent decades, with challengers disputing that a man of his relatively humble background could have amassed the knowledge — the book smarts, street smarts and existential smarts — to write the way he did.

Wicker wrote: "That a Russian public servant could have amassed the considerable funds required to acquire and maintain these assets in Europe and the United States raises serious questions".

Because the two houses sell more than $4 billion of merchandise a year globally, the amount in extra commissions they could have amassed the last several years could easily be tens of millions of dollars.

From Barbizon to Giverny was no great leap, and by the time of the St Botolph's exhibition in 1892, Desmond Fitzgerald wrote in the catalogue that he "could have amassed twice as many Monets from Bostonians had there been room to show them".

The team's success nearly 13 wins per season and a Super Bowl title under its belt since 2004 is generally attributed to future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning, but certainly the club couldn't have amassed such an impressive record without the backing of strong, complementary help.

The Koch brothers, who could surely have amassed mighty forces to Romney's advantage, have provided only perfunctory support.

How could one person have amassed an exposure, as Kerviel had, of fifty billion euros without his superiors at the bank knowing?

Others are believed to fear that a renewal of economic ties, and the resulting influx of American products it would probably bring, could undermine the economic control they have amassed since the revolution via government-controlled monopolies.

The state could negotiate better prices than the utilities, which have amassed billions of dollars in debt, it is believed.

War crimes investigators were said last night to have amassed thousands of documents which could be used in a case against the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.