Example sentences of "estimated at [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , you will not the first year returns estimated at at ninety odd percent I think for this scheme . |
| 2 | A report on the economic outlook for Germany , published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) on July 5 , was optimistic about the prospects for the unified German economy , forecasting growth rates of 4 per cent for 1990 and 3@1/2 per cent for 1991 , with the additional costs of unification estimated at about 1 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , a level which the report regarded as manageable without significant tax increases , though the report did warn that wage increases in East Germany could eliminate jobs . |
| 3 | Campaigners are now calling on the government to destroy the country 's stockpile of rhino horns , estimated at between five and 10 tonnes , or the equivalent of 2,000-4,000 dead rhinos . |
| 4 | The investigation involves losses estimated at between five hundred thousand and a million pounds . |
| 5 | The investigation involves losses estimated at between five hundred thousand and a million pounds . |
| 6 | The black population of London was estimated at between fourteen and twenty thousand in the eighteenth century , or 2.2 per cent of the total ( Alexander and Dewjee 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Meanwhile successive years of minimal house building had led to a national housing shortage , variously estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 dwellings . |
| 8 | High levels of production , estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 bpd above the ceiling set in July , continued throughout December amid increasing prospects of a Gulf war . |
| 9 | The world tiger population is estimated at between 6,000-9,000 ; if poaching continues at the present rate the tiger will be extinct by early next century , according to expert predictions . |
| 10 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 11 | filled the park with a crowd estimated at between 250,000 and 500,000 . |
| 12 | Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed . |
| 13 | By midday , a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 had gathered in the grounds of Eglinton Castle . |
| 14 | One priority identified by participants was to attempt a census of living species , of which only 1.4 million are known , out of a total estimated at between 5 million and 50 million . |
| 15 | The difference in the context of carbon dioxide emissions from all sources in the economy is estimated at between 234 million tonnes if gas is the main fuel and 250 if it is coal . |
| 16 | The programme has attracted good audiences , estimated at between 300,000 and 350,000 people . |
| 17 | The number of abortions performed each year was estimated at between 300,000 and 600,000 , compared with 550,000 live births . |
| 18 | A crowd estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000 gathered near the royal palace , and police opened fire ; the resulting death toll was estimated at between 35 and 150 ( including three foreign tourists ) , while more than 200 were wounded . |
| 19 | The yield was estimated at between one and two megatonnes , which made it China 's largest-ever nuclear explosion , exceeding by far the yields for tests carried out by other nuclear powers since the 1970s . |
| 20 | ( This is not true in the pornographic industry : the legendary organ of John Holmes — aka ‘ Long Johnny Wadd ’ — estimated at between 11 and 15 inches long , earned him parts in over 2,000 blue movies during a 20-year career ) . |
| 21 | BR says the cost of the compensation scheme … estimated at between ten and fifteen million pounds , is relatively small … and that the Charter will raise standards . |
| 22 | In England , the mortality from the plague has been variously estimated at between 20 per cent and 35 per cent of the population , and it may be that the higher figure is the more accurate . |
| 23 | At the time of the Arab invasion in 639 the population has been estimated at between 20 and 30 million , but when Napoleon invaded the decaying Ottoman Egypt in 1798 it had been reduced to some two and a half million . |
| 24 | A crowd estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000 gathered near the royal palace , and police opened fire ; the resulting death toll was estimated at between 35 and 150 ( including three foreign tourists ) , while more than 200 were wounded . |
| 25 | The " National Dialogue for Peace and Development " was formally launched by the government on June 25 , when de la Puente addressed an audience estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 people packed into the Amphitheatre Civic Centre in the capital , Lima . |
| 26 | Romania 's ethnic Germans once estimated at between 200,000 and 220,000 , were reported to be flooding out of the country , taking advantage of the policy of West Germany which granted citizenship to anyone who could prove German descent . |
| 27 | More than 10,000 Soviet troops had left Hungary since the start of a partial withdrawal in April 1989 [ see p. 36595 ] , and according to a Soviet announcement on Dec. 28 the withdrawal of another 8,000 troops was envisaged for 1990 , but this would still leave a Soviet presence estimated at between 37,000 and 44,000 troops . |
| 28 | On Jan. 9 the environmental group Greenpeace claimed that between 70,000 and 90,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct result of allied bombing ; the total number of Iraqi civilian and military war-related deaths was estimated at between 177,500 and 243,000 . |
| 29 | Concern with an overheating economy and an inflation rate unofficially estimated at between 3 and 7.5 per cent led in December 1990 to the signing of an agreement between government , unions and employers to regulate industrial relations and incomes policy . |
| 30 | The drift-net catch of juvenile in 1988–89 was estimated at between 29,000 and 49,000 tonnes , which is thought to be unsustainable . |