Example sentences of "[pers pn] estimate [that] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By the end of July we estimated that the industrial action had added 65,000 patients to the waiting lists in English hospitals alone .
2 " We estimate that a typical child would have to eat a tonne of chocolate a week for life to exceed the safe dose , " said the alliance 's spokesman .
3 Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now .
4 We estimate that the TOTAL COST to each group ordering through us will be £50.00 — a saving of £20.00 .
5 By December 1990 , the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) had received reports of over 305,000 people with AIDS from 179 countries , but they estimate that the true number of cases is likely to be more than 800,000 , with between 8–10 million infected with HIV .
6 It estimated that the full implementation of debt relief plans would remove up to US$6,000 million from outstanding debt ( around 8 per cent ) , but still leave the region owing the equivalent of 106 per cent of annual gross domestic product ( GDP ) .
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