Example sentences of "[be] estimated [that] [adj] [noun] " 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 | In Europe , it has been estimated that one quarter of road traffic deaths and 10 per cent of injuries are associated with alcohol . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that each edition after 1800 probably ran to over 30,000 copies . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been estimated that British business is losing up to £1bn a year and that around 100,000 jobs have been lost as a result of this practice . ’ |
| 12 | Between the surrender and December 1948 the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce retail price index rose by 4000 per cent and it is estimated that black market prices increased at double this rate . |
| 13 | RECYCLED PAPER It is estimated that certain plastics will take over 400 years to disintegrate , so that is why we are introducing more recyclable plastic , which can be melted down and re-used . |
| 14 | It is estimated that 60,000 sites are worthy of scheduling . |
| 15 | Of an edition of Luther 's Bible printed in Wittenberg in 1534 , it is estimated that 100,000 copies were sold in forty years . |
| 16 | The hard disk is now down to 50% , and it is estimated that all non-Accounts files will be off the system by the end of June . |
| 17 | IT is estimated that all employees who originally applied to participate in Heartwatch will have undertaken an appointment by the middle of this year . |
| 18 | Badger-baiting is at an all-time high in East and North Yorkshire and it is estimated that each year in Great Britain as many as 9,000 badgers meet a premature death . |
| 19 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 20 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 21 | This is particularly apparent in Central America , where it is estimated that seasonal migrants make up 70 per cent of the labour force employed in agriculture . |
| 22 | It is estimated that 1,000 courses were built in England in 1990 alone . |
| 23 | It is estimated that 1,000 units could be sold at £1 each . |
| 24 | Because there is often more than one casualty involved in an accident , it is estimated that this casualty target can be achieved by reducing the number of accidents by about 50 . |
| 25 | It is estimated that this element would bring the total to over 20,000 . |
| 26 | It is estimated that this August , a third of all new L registration cars will be bought by women . |
| 27 | It is estimated that some 9m now work the equivalent of a full year in agriculture — of which 65% are men and 35% women — although nearly 18m still have an attachment to the land . |
| 28 | In Ireland , for example , it is estimated that some 25% of all forestry workers also farm ; elsewhere , such as in the west of Scotland and in the Islands , fishing is very often a complementary occupation for many small farmers while in southern Italy whole communities live by fishing alone . |
| 29 | It is estimated that British Gas 's contracted supplies from the North Sea will start to run down from 1984 and by 1995 will meet only one-third of UK needs . |
| 30 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |