Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] estimated [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Europe , it has been estimated that one quarter of road traffic deaths and 10 per cent of injuries are associated with alcohol . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that diarrhoeal illness is responsible for 250,000 deaths each year in Bangladesh . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that each edition after 1800 probably ran to over 30,000 copies . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that these subsistence farmers are globally responsible for half of all rainforest destruction , as they march deeper and deeper into virgin forest . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been estimated that British business is losing up to £1bn a year and that around 100,000 jobs have been lost as a result of this practice . ’ |
| 7 | ( By way of indication of what this represented in the family budget , it has been estimated that weekly expenditure on food in working-class families at the time was about 35 per head . ) " |