Example sentences of "[pron] estimate [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final weeks of the Reagan administration , State Department plans for a ‘ surgical strike ’ against General Noriega were scotched by the Pentagon , which estimated that any use of US troops would cause several hundred military and civilian deaths . |
| 2 | According to the census the official population figure of the USA was 248,700,000 , although the Census Bureau itself estimated that this figure was too low by 5,300,000 . |
| 3 | She estimates that these actions would enable the company to sell 5,800 pairs of trousers each month . |
| 4 | We estimated that 37 subjects would be required in each treatment limb . |
| 5 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 6 | Madam Speaker we estimate that British employers spend er approximately twenty thousand million pounds a year on training . |
| 7 | ‘ We estimate that most solicitors will charge a minimum of £325 on a property of £100,000 . |
| 8 | Nalgo said it estimated that 100,000 jobs will be lost in local government and the health service in the next financial year . |
| 9 | In its brief analysis of the impact of the Channel Tunnel it estimated that some £5m passengers ( or 50,000 air passenger movements ) would be diverted to the tunnel in 1995 rising to 6m ( 65,000 movements ) in 2000 . |
| 10 | Dr Vanezis he estimated that these injuries were between two and four weeks old . |
| 11 | It estimates that 42,000 people will leave this year , 55,000 next year , and perhaps up to 60,000 the year after . |
| 12 | The Inland Revenue is , in fact , considering a change from PAYE to an American system of income tax , with the obligation on taxpayers themselves to estimate and forward tax , subject to random checks . |