Example Sentences

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That phase-out will have prevented up to 1C of warming by the middle of the century - if compared to increasing their use by 3% per year, the scientists found.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2023

A recent Gates-funded study estimated that by 2020, Gavi vaccines will have prevented 20 million deaths and $820 billion in health-care costs and other economic losses.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2017

It is, however, possible that your absence from home will have prevented your seeing it, so I will give you a sketch of its contents. 

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

But your declaration will be respected—Russia will not interfere—you will have no occasion for war—you will have prevented war.

From Select Speeches of Kossuth by Newman, Francis William

But I much fear that the alarm among the Bar, upon a point which affects their private interests as well as their national pride, will have prevented, or in great measure impeded its being signed.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of