Example sentences of "[vb pp] a estimated [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lotus , now quite a rare model , came into Gordon 's possession in 1981 and he spent thousands of hours restoring it to mint condition , despite it having done an estimated 200,000 miles . |
| 2 | The scandal , reportedly involving between Rs10,000 million ( US$420,000,000 ) and Rs23,000 million ( US$915,000,000 ) , was believed to have ruined an estimated 2,600,000 depositors . |
| 3 | Troops entered the hotel and arrested an estimated 1,500 demonstrators , many of whom were beaten before being taken away . |
| 4 | The Liberian crisis , which had caused an estimated 700,000 refugees to flee into Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea and Sierra Leone in the previous 16 months , continued to preoccupy leaders of the 16 members of ECOWAS , concerned for the stability of their region . |
| 5 | The 23-year insurgency campaign by the military wing of the CPP , the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , had cost an estimated 21,000 lives . |
| 6 | On April 5 the government authorized an estimated 10,000 troops , supported by tanks , to bring forcibly to an end the occupation of 19 town halls in the state of Michoacán by militant supporters of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) . |
| 7 | The register , which had been provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act and featured in the Prime Minister 's " Citizen Charter " , would have covered an estimated 100,000 sites . |
| 8 | They had also lost an estimated 11,000 tons of munitions at Langson ; and it was said that almost everything that the Vietminh fired at the French in after years came from that remarkable prize . |