Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] estimated [that] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's estimated that the earthquake in India has claimed twenty thousand lives .
2 It 's estimated that the trade is worth up to £1.5 million a year , with huntsmen collecting , on average , around £5,000 a year and in some cases as much as £20,000 .
3 It 's estimated that the workers will be travelling back and forth from France until Christmas .
4 It is estimated that every year more than 200 billion tonnes of carbon are exchanged between the atmosphere , living things and the ocean in a natural cycle .
5 IT IS ESTIMATED THAT EVERY YEAR :
6 It is estimated that every chlorine molecule has the ability to destroy 100,000 ozone molecules .
7 It is estimated that a fall in oil prices costs the Soviet Union about $500 million per dollar off the price of crude .
8 It is estimated that a database of this size could contain the following ( note that these figures are only estimates ) :
9 In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It is estimated that the cost of completing the excavation and related research will be about £40,000 .
15 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 .
16 For the industrial sector , it is estimated that the cost has fallen by more than 25 per cent .
17 In addition , it is estimated that the cost of recruitment , e.g. advertising , will cost £3,000 .
18 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 .
19 In addition , it is estimated that the company employs around forty marketing , personnel , production and accountancy executives .
20 It is estimated that the tally of films , over the world , exceeds 400 .
21 It is estimated that the play park will attract 2,000 visits-a-week .
22 It is estimated that the incidence of port wine stain birthmarks is three per 1,000 births in the UK .
23 It is estimated that the carbon dioxide output of an average household in theUK is 6.5 tonnes a year , equivalent to a two star rating .
24 It is estimated that the growth of credit is overestimated by about 2% because of this .
25 Over eighteen years it is estimated that the farm yielded around £50,000 net profit .
26 Since the Museum was initiated on the site , it is estimated that the volunteers on site have contributed over 40,000 hours of work on the cars , aircraft and buildings on the complex .
27 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 .
28 It is estimated that the demand by the turn of the century will be 6000 million m 3 .
29 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 .
30 It is estimated that the ozone layer over northern Europe will have been considerably damaged by the end of the century .
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