Sentence examples for could have eroded from inspiring English sources

Subsequent periods of water flow, geologists said, could have eroded the previous sedimentary layers and left high bluffs and hills.

These trenches may have been formed at the time of the last glaciation, when parts of the North Sea were free of ice, and rivers coming off the mainland could have eroded deep channels in the basin floor.

The issue is important because Mr. Foster's estimates were considerably higher than those lawmakers used, and support for the measure, which passed narrowly, could have eroded had the higher figures been widely known.

Mark Macklin, a professor of physical geography at Aberystwyth University, said the force of the flood waters could have eroded river banks which stored harmful metals.

At the end of the first WFD cycle, the Background Document "Pollutants" of the Elbe RBMP [10] called it a "success," when some information from the Tauw Report [19] suggested that the summer flood of 2002 could have eroded the most critical dioxin hot spots from the Spittelwasser river bed.

How could Stabler's skills have eroded so quickly?

The study concludes that traditional limits on who could join a credit union have eroded over the years, bringing "credit unions into more direct competition with other depository institutions, such as banks".

Over the past 40 years, politicians have eroded regulations that could have helped prevent the sub-prime mortgage bubble and bust.

In recent years, rapid improvements in China's fighter fleet have eroded the island's long-held belief that it could dominate the skies over the Taiwan Strait.

Where once publishers could set their own prices, digital book sales and the rapid rise of Amazon have eroded their powers of negotiation.

Health benefits have eroded.