Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be estimated [that] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 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 is worth emphasising again the ‘ dark ’ statistics of unreported crime , which is particularly relevant here where it has been estimated that 70 per cent of computer crime is unreported , because of the fear of loss of public confidence in the financial institutions concerned . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that three million elderly people in Britain are at risk . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 7 | In Britain there are 100,000 convictions annually for driving under the influence of drink and it has been estimated that 20 per cent of all hospital admissions are associated with alcohol in some way . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals . |
| 9 | In Britain , it has been estimated that 73 % of the male population over 65 were occupied in 1881 , but by 1981 this had reduced to only 11 % ( Johnson , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |