Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] estimated [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 2 | It was estimated that 40,000 houses would be built over three years with this money , to house some 250,000 people . |
| 3 | In 1989 , it was estimated that sharp instruments were used in one in three aggravated burglaries , one in five robberies , one in 17 offences of violence against the person and one in 100 sexual offences . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was estimated that annual defence spending by developing countries totalled around US$170,000 million , or 5 per cent of their combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and more than three times the total value of aid transfers from the industrialized world . |
| 7 | most school librarians have experience of pupils losing library tickets , it was estimated that individual cards would need replacing regularly . |
| 8 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 9 | It was estimated that 25,000 people would be affected . |
| 10 | Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was estimated that seven people were killed in rioting between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10 . |
| 13 | It was estimated that some units ( railway troops , civil defence and military construction units ) would be without recruits , partly because of deferred service and sickness , but also because of the creation of independent armed forces in the former Soviet republics . |
| 14 | It was estimated that 10,000 Niueans live and work in New Zealand . |
| 15 | ( It was estimated that 35,000,000 US citizens had no health insurance , and that a further 60,000,000 were inadequately covered . ) |