"potentially need" is correct and usable in written English.
When you want to indicate something may eventually require something, "potentially need" is a good way to phrase it. For example, "This project could potentially need additional funding."
The memo added: "Despite this, more than 80,000 persons could potentially need to be returned in the near future".
Wilpon would potentially need enormous sums of money to meet those demands, either by settling with Picard, or if he eventually lost to him in court.
The drop seems all the more significant given that the population is aging, so there are surely more men who potentially need the drug.
To win a delegate plurality, Mr. Santorum would potentially need to win states like California, Maryland or Oregon where the demographics are even more challenging to him than they are in Illinois.
Barring a landslide for Mr. Miller in absentee and questioned ballots that are still to be counted, he could potentially need more than 10 percent of the write-in votes to have either been cast for someone other than Ms. Murkowski or to have been cast for her improperly.
The suit pants potentially need to be altered, while casual pants do not.
As the Guardian reported in January: In 2014, more than 15 million children under six years old potentially needed [child] care, according to the 2014 Child Care Aware of America report.
Never before have there been so many people potentially needing care and support, and families are providing more care than ever.
It is worth noting, however, that about 10% of people do suffer what is sometimes called "complicated" or "prolonged" grief, where the feelings of loss are intense, long-lasting and cause significant impairment, potentially needing help from mental health professionals.
He said drugs in the class were associated with heart failure in some cases and could be quite costly, because they potentially needed to be maintained for a lifetime.
With cruise ships full of hundreds of passengers potentially needing rescue, tanker ships going adrift in coastal areas or getting stuck in sea ice, and the energy boom itself, Commander Riddle said, once largely empty waters are getting more crowded.
