Example Sentences

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Ms. Armstrong is taking the risk of waiting with the hope that by the time a new contract must be signed, a new government will have intervened.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2022

But the information which is given off will differ profoundly from that which has been received, for between the two will have intervened many stages of silent absorption and silent growth.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

Several years will have intervened between it and the previous book and the girls will be introduced under very different influences and circumstances.

From The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Vandercook, Margaret