Example sentences of "[noun pl] estimate [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter to manufacturers estimates that personal computers based on Pentium will list for $5,000 for desktop models and $7,000 for mid-range systems . |
| 2 | EC traders estimate that this year 's harvest could shoot up to 166.8m tonnes — excluding the former East German sector . |
| 3 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors estimated that 600,000 acres had been blighted , including large areas of Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 4 | Israeli officials estimated that this figure would increase dramatically in 1990 , an appraisal which appeared to be based partly on persistent reports of a threat from anti-Semitic groups to the safety of Jews in the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 6 | Regional news sources estimated that 200 people had been killed and 10,000 made homeless between the beginning of March and the end of April . |
| 7 | Official figures put the casualties at seven dead and 22 wounded , but independent sources estimated that 16 demonstrators and two policemen had been killed and 350 demonstrators injured , 66 of whom were in critical condition . |
| 8 | British energy studies estimate that total energy consumption could be reduced by anything between 10 and 65 per cent over the next 35 years — depending on the political will . |
| 9 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 10 | One of his doctors estimated that each day in intensive care was adding $1,000 to his medical bill . |
| 11 | In New York , police estimated that 4,700,000 people watched what was believed to be the largest-ever ticker-tape parade . |
| 12 | Government reports estimate that 125,432 people have died , but one daily newspaper puts the loss at over 505,500 , ’ wrote the council 's general secretary , Rev Subodh Adhikary . |
| 13 | Notwithstanding the party 's post-Recruit commitment to reduce the influence of money within the electoral process , some analysts estimated that total LDP spending during the course of the campaign was in excess of 210,000 million yen ( approximately US$1,450 million ) . |