Example sentences of "[pers pn] estimate [that] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | We estimate that the TOTAL COST to each group ordering through us will be £50.00 — a saving of £20.00 . |
| 4 | On the basis of estimates of the size and composition of the nuclear workforces in the study area , national fertility rates , and local migration rates , we estimate that the expected numbers of control fathers who were employed and monitored for exposure to ionising radiation are in broad agreement with the numbers observed . |
| 5 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It estimated that the Ethiopian provinces of Tigray and Eritrea required urgent food aid of 980,000 tonnes , and that Sudan needed 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 9 | From what he had seen he estimated that the low-velocity rounds had been fired at a maximum of a dozen paces . |