Example sentences of "[be] estimated [that] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Europe , it has been estimated that one quarter of road traffic deaths and 10 per cent of injuries are associated with alcohol .
2 It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside .
3 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 .
4 It is estimated that 60,000 sites are worthy of scheduling .
5 Of an edition of Luther 's Bible printed in Wittenberg in 1534 , it is estimated that 100,000 copies were sold in forty years .
6 It is estimated that 1,000 courses were built in England in 1990 alone .
7 It is estimated that 1,000 units could be sold at £1 each .
8 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 .
9 Worst affected is Somalia , where it 's estimated that three children are dying every minute .
10 It was estimated that 40,000 houses would be built over three years with this money , to house some 250,000 people .
11 When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ .
12 In July 1982 it was estimated that 300,000 people in the UK suffered from tinnitus which interfered with their ability to lead normal lives .
13 It was estimated that seven people were killed in rioting between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10 .
14 Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas .
15 It was estimated that 25,000 people would be affected .
16 It was estimated that 10,000 Niueans live and work in New Zealand .
17 In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour .
18 ( It was estimated that 35,000,000 US citizens had no health insurance , and that a further 60,000,000 were inadequately covered . )
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