Example sentences of "[be] estimated that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that the majority of the great London families survived there for no more than three generations in the male line , and it was certainly rare for men to prefer city life to that of the country ( 104 , p.205 ) . |
| 3 | Without the adjustment , it had been estimated that the budget deficit would have exceeded L147,000,000 million , which was the level predicted by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in criticisms made at the time of the adoption of the 1990 budget in December 1989 [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the capital cost of a 1,000 MW installation on the UK coast could be comparable with the cost of a conventional power station of the same capacity but this does not take into account the amount of R & D necessary both to develop a 2MW , 100-metre diameter aerogenerator and to design the kind of structures and transmission systems to withstand the rigours of the ocean . |
| 5 | Indeed it has been estimated that the presence of hedgerows reduces the output of cereals farms by up to 15 per cent . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 7 | It has been estimated that the amount of fossil fuels that will be consumed between AD 2000 and AD 2050 will be over three times the amount consumed between AD 1 and AD 2000 . |
| 8 | It had previously been estimated that the programme would allow 100,000-170,000 people who had arrived in Spain before May 15 , 1991 , to regularize their status . |
| 9 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 10 | It is estimated that the tally of films , over the world , exceeds 400 . |
| 11 | It is estimated that the cost of completing the excavation and related research will be about £40,000 . |
| 12 | It is estimated that the cost of such a system of local government would be around £1 million , against the £18 million projected savings associated with the creation of a single council for Edinburgh and the Lothians . |
| 13 | For the industrial sector , it is estimated that the cost has fallen by more than 25 per cent . |
| 14 | In addition , it is estimated that the cost of recruitment , e.g. advertising , will cost £3,000 . |
| 15 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
| 16 | IBM 's investment in Supercomputing Systems has never been disclosed , but it is estimated that the company needed at least $200m to get this far . |
| 17 | In addition , it is estimated that the company employs around forty marketing , personnel , production and accountancy executives . |
| 18 | It is estimated that the incidence of port wine stain birthmarks is three per 1,000 births in the UK . |
| 19 | It is estimated that the majority of adults have a speaking vocabulary of 3000 to 5000 words although their reading vocabulary may well be more . |
| 20 | It is estimated that the station , the first of its kind to be constructed in Europe , will use about 200,000 tons of this particular biofuel per year , generating enough electricity to supply 10,000 houses . |
| 21 | It is estimated that the play park will attract 2,000 visits-a-week . |
| 22 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
| 23 | In 1980–1 , a fairly typical year , the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture for land-drainage schemes , including some urban work , amounted to about £30.5 million , of which £23.7 million was allocated to the water authorities , while the rest went to internal drainage boards and local authorities.2 In that year it is estimated that the water authorities spent around £40 million on capital drainage schemes for agriculture . |
| 24 | It is estimated that the growth of credit is overestimated by about 2% because of this . |
| 25 | It is estimated that the ozone layer over northern Europe will have been considerably damaged by the end of the century . |
| 26 | For a 10,000 million tonne nuclear war scenario , it is estimated that the ozone column would be reduced by between 30 and 70 per cent in the northern hemisphere and by up to 40 per cent in the southern hemisphere ( Crutzen and Birks , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1975b ; Turco et al. , 1983 ; Whitten et al. , 1975 ) . |
| 27 | It is estimated that the demand by the turn of the century will be 6000 million m 3 . |
| 28 | It is estimated that the number of people aged between sixteen and nineteen will fall by over 850,000 between 1987 and 1995 — a reduction of nearly 25 per cent . |
| 29 | It is estimated that the basin would have become no deeper than about 5 km , and as today Mare Imbrium is of negligible depth there could be up to about 5 km of infill . |
| 30 | It is estimated that the value of resources transferred by the Soviet Union out of Eastern Europe between 1945–1956 approximated the value of Marshall Plan aid transferred by the United States into Western Europe during the same period . |