Example sentences of "been estimated [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that diarrhoeal illness is responsible for 250,000 deaths each year in Bangladesh . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that many thousands of kung fu styles exist in Asia today . |
| 3 | Although definitive information is lacking , it has been estimated that such a right currently applies to just 20% of the 1.5 million acres of common land in England and Wales . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 5 | In Europe , it has been estimated that one quarter of road traffic deaths and 10 per cent of injuries are associated with alcohol . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that Moody and Sankey were heard by upwards of one-and-a-half million Londoners in 1875 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It has been estimated that each edition after 1800 probably ran to over 30,000 copies . |
| 12 | Despite the enterprise and labour put into its acquisition it has been estimated that all the gold won between the mid-fifteenth and mid-twentieth centuries could be contained in a cube of fifteen yards . |
| 13 | It is worth emphasising again the ‘ dark ’ statistics of unreported crime , which is particularly relevant here where it has been estimated that 70 per cent of computer crime is unreported , because of the fear of loss of public confidence in the financial institutions concerned . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . ) " |
| 17 | It has been estimated that three million elderly people in Britain are at risk . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that these subsistence farmers are globally responsible for half of all rainforest destruction , as they march deeper and deeper into virgin forest . |
| 19 | It has been estimated that these various small-scale erosional processes require tens of Ma to overturn a few millimetres of dust . |
| 20 | It has been estimated that these three cost categories can impact about 10 to 40 per cent of the well 's dryhole cost . |
| 21 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that some 85 per cent of these are of Augustan date . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 24 | In Britain there are 100,000 convictions annually for driving under the influence of drink and it has been estimated that 20 per cent of all hospital admissions are associated with alcohol in some way . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals . |
| 26 | It has been estimated that more than one-third of the land area of the United Kingdom is covered by these additional restraints . |
| 27 | NO CRIME PLEASE , WE 'RE IOFCs It has been estimated that half the world 's financial transactions by value involve an offshore centre directly or indirectly . |
| 28 | In Britain , it has been estimated that 73 % of the male population over 65 were occupied in 1881 , but by 1981 this had reduced to only 11 % ( Johnson , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year . |
| 30 | Manufacturing accounts for a relatively small proportion of employment in rural areas , and in the more remote regions it has been estimated that this can be as low as 10–20 per cent ( Gilg 1976 ) . |