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We could have predicted that.
"Unfortunately, we could have predicted this.
QUESTION FROM GUEST: Some observers now claim that, if we look carefully, we could have predicted Obama's behavior.
We never thought in terms of hits anyway, but there was no way we could have predicted how many people would have liked that song".
We could have predicted in 2013 that the top golfers wouldn't show their faces at Games scheduled just after the Open and the PGA Championship, and in the build-up the Ryder Cup.
Looking back, we have come a long way and, at the beginning, I do not think we could have predicted just what a difference we would be able to make to the lives of Katine's people.
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It would be unreasonable to expect that things would get significantly better in only a week, but we doubt that many could have predicted that they'd get much worse.
When the first fully synthetic plastic was created in 1907, few could have predicted we'd one day be wearing it, eating our dinners off it and… dumping it in our oceans.
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