Example sentences of "it have [be] estimate that [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It has been estimated that retrospective appeals from Scottish landowners over previously designated SSSIs — there are currently 1300 — could cost SNH £1.5m a year , 7.5% of their budget . |
2 | It has been estimated that diarrhoeal illness is responsible for 250,000 deaths each year in Bangladesh . |
3 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
4 | It has been estimated that Moody and Sankey were heard by upwards of one-and-a-half million Londoners in 1875 . |
5 | It has been estimated that mild , self managed episodes may occur about twice weekly ; severe episodes without unconsciousness but requiring help from another person twice yearly ; and episodes of unconsciousness three times in 40 years . |
6 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
7 | ( By way of indication of what this represented in the family budget , it has been estimated that weekly expenditure on food in working-class families at the time was about 35 per head . ) " |
8 | ‘ It has been estimated that British business is losing up to £1bn a year and that around 100,000 jobs have been lost as a result of this practice . ’ |