Example sentences of "estimate [that] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 , the Controller of the Audit Commission estimated that each year ‘ at least £3 billion worth of goods and services is purchased by competitive tendering ’ ( Banham 1985 : 12 ) . |
| 2 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 3 | Badger-baiting is at an all-time high in East and North Yorkshire and it is estimated that each year in Great Britain as many as 9,000 badgers meet a premature death . |
| 4 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 5 | The Food and Agricultural Organisation estimates that each year upwards of 100 million cattle , 100 million sheep , 200 million pigs , 26 million calves and three thousand million chickens meet their deaths in the US alone . |
| 6 | ICI estimates that two years of global production has yet to enter the atmosphere . |
| 7 | Smithers & Co , a research boutique , estimates that this year the corporate sector , excluding banks , will have to find new net external capital of ¥40 trillion ( $15 billion ) , equal to around 8% of GNP . |
| 8 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 9 | EC traders estimate that this year 's harvest could shoot up to 166.8m tonnes — excluding the former East German sector . |