Example Sentences

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By 2025 the seven hospitals will have required more than £500 million of investment to prevent structural failure.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

So it will have required much persuasion to get her to this point.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2017

After all, to get there in the first place will have required a certain amount of assertiveness and aggression, or even narcissism, not easy characteristics to subdue.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2015

"I know the species, and I know these maggots will have required a certain thermal input to attain that size," he says.

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2010

A secret—for we shall make it that of course, shan't we?—at this witching hour, in this great old house, is all my visit here will have required to make the whole thing a rare remembrance.

From The Awkward Age by James, Henry