Example sentences of "be estimated [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When fast scoring is discussed , there is one name which comes up more often than any other , and which should , in fairness , have been the first to have been entered on this teamsheet. it has been estimated that Gilbert Jessop — ‘ The Croucher ’ — made his runs at an average rate of 80 per hour , a phenomenal statistic .
2 It has been estimated that signing up to the social charter would have cost Britain a minimum of £5,000 million a year , decreased competitiveness and increased unemployment .
3 It has been estimated that childhood protection from the sun ban reduce the risk of skin cancer in later life by 78% .
4 It has been estimated that Mozart probably received around 750 gulden from his various publishers in the last year of his life — a sum roughly comparable to Haydn 's annual earnings from publications , and by no means meagre .
5 It has been estimated that agents and distributors alone , acting on behalf of overseas companies , handle over half of the world 's overseas trade .
6 Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today .
7 It has been estimated that OPEC supplied approximately 50 per cent of the market 's funds in the 1970s .
8 It had previously been estimated that £40,000 could be saved ; the Committee decided that this was unrealistic , and reduced the estimate to £25,000 .
9 It has been estimated that 10% of the scientific literature is never cited ( Price 1965 ) .
10 It had been estimated that savings of up to £40,000 a school could be made through closures , but that was not the only factor taken into consideration , he said .
11 It is estimated that smoking causes some 100,000 premature deaths every year [ 1 ] .
12 It is estimated that smoking causes 100,000 premature deaths every year [ 1 ] .
13 By 1793 it is estimated that West Prussia — the area that now contained Danzig and Pomerania — had a total population of around 647,000 .
14 It is estimated that changes at both Broughton and Filton have already saved £100,000 a year in transport costs .
15 Where it is estimated that road noise on properties will be greater than the recommended maximum level of 68 dB ( A ) , noise intrusion should be reduced by the formation of earth mounds wherever possible and landscaped as part of the roadworks .
16 If that rate of increase continues it is estimated that methyl bromide could account for one-sixth of ozone loss by 2000 .
17 In spite of the law , however , it is estimated that children aged 11–16 in Britain spend up to £90 million a year on cigarettes [ 16 ] .
18 In contrast to this it is estimated that alcohol is a factor in 30 per cent of murders , 45 per cent of assaults and 88 per cent of criminal damage arrests .
19 It is estimated that agreement on the whole GATT package could increase global economic activity by $4,000 billion within a decade .
20 They also reduce land loss , since it is estimated that channels with 50 per cent tree and shrub cover on both banks require only approximately half the width for a given volume of bankfull flood-water speeding through the channel , compared to treeless brooks which erode out into the adjacent fields .
21 At this rate it is estimated that poachers could finish off Zimbabwe 's last rhino by the end of 1994 .
22 It is estimated that Leigh Environmental deposited 400 million gallons of toxic liquids into the old workings .
23 It is estimated that divergence of new world-old world monkeys-hominoid lineage happened about 50 million years ago , indicating that the P3A exon is conserved through primate evolution .
24 Recently it has become possible to convert simultaneously wood chips of a hundred or more hardwood species into paper pulp , which is important , as it is estimated that paper consumption will increase more than that of timber .
25 It is estimated that lead reaches toxic levels in the blood of 17 per cent of urban children under school age .
26 It 's estimated that 80% of burglaries are committed by casual opportunists , and in three out of ten thefts the burglar does n't have to use force to gain entry — open windows and unlocked doors make life very easy for him .
27 Under ideal conditions it was estimated that ice formation could exert a maximum pressure of around 200 MPa ( at which point the freezing temperature is -22°C ) , but it was appreciated that this theoretical maximum pressure could never be attained under natural conditions , not the least because it far exceeded the tensile strength of most rocks ( around 25 MPa ) .
28 But in 1990 , it was estimated that Japan 's drift net fishery was responsible for the deaths of 41 million sea creatures other than those it was seeking to catch .
29 It was estimated that Exxon 's 1989 operation had left up to 7,000,000 gallons of oil ( of the 11,000,000 gallons originally spilt ) in the affected area , largely on its coastline .
30 It was estimated that families in Easthall were paying £1 million between them each year heating the sky above Glasgow because as soon as they turned on the heat , it went straight out their windows and walls .
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