could
Example Sentences
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“We could not buy spare parts for machinery, for example. They all had to be paid for in hard currency that we mostly couldn’t access,” he said.
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“There was a lot of cool old vintage recording gear that Jimmy could afford to maintain,” said Jamison.
They reckon it could be a lengthy bidding process.
That next level could include expectations of higher likely returns once the bank completes its simplification efforts and achieves lower long-term minimum capital levels, McDonald added.
That means a letter dropped in a mailbox on Monday could be postmarked on Wednesday, if that was the day it got to a processing facility.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
