Example sentences of "[noun] estimate that [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a circular sent to branches on 5 December , Brockway estimated that only 30 members would be involved , mostly in the London Division , but possibly in Liverpool also . |
| 2 | As a result of this change , the Inland Revenue estimates that over 200,000 older married couples have been taken out of the tax system and no longer pay income tax . |
| 3 | After talks in Moscow on Nov. 27 between President Gorbachev and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz , described by Gorbachev as " difficult , I would even say harsh " , the Soviet Foreign Affairs Ministry estimated that only 350 Soviet nationals had thus far been allowed to leave Iraq . ) |
| 4 | Of the Republicans , Stockman estimated that perhaps fifty were not enamoured with budget-cutting ; these were the so-called ‘ Gypsy Moths ’ , liberal Republicans from the Northeast and the Midwest . |
| 5 | In 1921 Bowley estimated that only 41 per cent of working class families could depend on a man 's wage and of the families drawing public assistance during the 1930s fewer than one half depended on only one wage earner . |
| 6 | The Stock Exchange estimates that about 6 per cent of adults own shares , with a third of these deriving from the sale of British Telecom ( Guardian , 10 May 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Despite the act , the " brain drain " from Hong Kong continued during 1990 ; officials estimated that over 60,000 people emigrated in 1990 , 20 per cent above 1989 levels . |
| 8 | The DSS estimates that around 5.5 million people each year receive statutory sick pay , and that 15 per cent of this total belonged to the bottom and middle earnings bands . |
| 9 | Relief agencies estimated that approximately 200 people were dying of starvation each week in the Ogaden in the remote south-east , according to reports from mid-October ; malnutrition had sharply increased , with the death rate rising to 12 per 10,000 daily since August , when aid workers had warned of a worsening situation [ see p. 39042 ] . |
| 10 | Relief agencies estimated that around 400 people had been killed in the September fighting in Mogadishu , and up to 1,500 had been injured . |
| 11 | The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that around 450 million people are chronically undernourished . |
| 12 | Even so , the 1974 Press Commission estimated that perhaps eight out of fifteen mornings they examined were being subsidized by an evening paper . |
| 13 | Timaeus estimates that only 16 per cent of those reaching the age of 60 in the early 1990s will have no children at time of death . |
| 14 | The government estimated that nearly one in three businesses would pay rate increases of more than 50 per cent over the first few years , with some paying more than double their previous bill . |
| 15 | On July 20 a report by the Islamic Republic News Agency ( IRNA ) quoted government estimates that over 1,000,000 Iranians were drug addicts . |
| 16 | The government estimates that about 50,000 lone parents will come off income support as a result of the new scheme ( DSS , 1990a , para. 5.35 ) . |
| 17 | The scientists estimate that nearly two-thirds of the African continent has become drier over the past 60 years . |
| 18 | The report estimated that about 38,000 of the 60,000 caravans were on sites for which permission , usually conditional or temporary , had been given ; about 12,000 had ‘ existing use ’ rights ; and about 10,000 were on sites which appeared to contravene planning control . |
| 19 | Local radio estimated that about 100 had swum to safety . |
| 20 | Throughout the country , Sica estimated that over 16,000 individuals and approximately 800 businesses had connections with the Mafia . |
| 21 | The report estimates that about 234,000 shells have been imported since 1981 . |
| 22 | This example is , however , the first to be found in Britain and Ms Johns estimates that around fifteen will probably emerge when all the treasure has been liberated from its surrounding earth . |
| 23 | Instead by 1984 , when personal computers were abundant , the US Department of Labor estimated that nearly two-thirds of people who worked on Video Display Terminals in the US were monitored by their employers . |
| 24 | In all , about two thirds of the island of Krakatoa had disappeared and Verbeek estimated that about fifteen cubic kilometres of matter had been ejected by the eruption . |
| 25 | Swift-Hook estimated that about 30 per cent of the CEGB 's researchers were then working on Pressurized Water Reactors . |
| 26 | The minister estimated that over 50,000 million roubles will be required to undertake research , set up experimental sites to produce substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals and convert existing production sites . |
| 27 | A leading Soviet demographer estimated that altogether 9,400,000 peasants had died during Stalin 's collectivization programme in the early 1930s . |
| 28 | But two North Wales MPs estimate that around 150 regular fishermen could be affected by the regulations . |