Sentence examples for may have thrived from inspiring English sources
She is viewed iconically rather than ironically: while Romford may have thrived in the 1980s, other parts were suffering; and no mention is made of the Leaderene's narrow survival of Westland.
The scientists hope that the variation of composition with altitude will tell them the climate history of Mars and show whether or not it was once a world on which life may have thrived.
As a result, and for all its flaws, Wilson's play and main character are so meaty and vivid that you can't help being gripped by this story of a man who may have thrived, but who is fenced in by the era into which he was born and by his own personality.
Such life may have thrived tens of thousands of years ago when climate change might have melted the subsurface ice.
The finding that the earliest tetrapods may have thrived in the "mud of a shallow marine lagoon" (Janvier and Clément 2010) is of importance with respect to the "mudskippers-as-model organisms" question that is discussed below.
These and other facts suggest that the first tetrapods may have thrived in the marine-influenced intertidal and/or lagoon zone as well as in brackish and freshwater environments associated with land vegetation, as previously thought.
Although there has been strong indirect evidence that large amounts of water once existed on our neighbouring planet, the latest observations from Nasa's Curiosity rover confirm that Mars was once a watery world in which microbial life may once have thrived.
This is a reasonable aim, and it is certainly intriguing to hear that the sorts of landscape pictures preferred by 8-year-olds around the world seem to mirror the types of flat, savannah-like vistas in which their distant ancestors may well have thrived.
Yet despite these infernal conditions, early life could have survived--and may even have thrived in the warm, wet spots left in the crust by impacters--according to a new study.
These may be primitive bacteria whose close relations are known to have thrived billions of years ago.
