Example sentences of "[verb] estimated [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment has estimated that indoor air pollution and sick building syndrome cost the British economy at least £650 million a year in terms of the effects on thousands of people suffering chronic ailments caused by increased allergies , asthma and other conditions . |
| 2 | The Royal College of Physicians has estimated that 100,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking each year [ 7 ] . |
| 3 | The Royal College of Physicians has estimated that smoking-induced illness results in the loss of 50 million working days every year [ 1 ] . |
| 4 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 5 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |