Example sentences of "[prep] [art] estimated [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These other variables are particularly relevant in the light of the estimated 60 per cent of working women with dependent children in 1987 ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 3 | Bad weather from October to December led to losses of an estimated 15-20 per cent in the coffee harvest , the principal export and a key area of the economy . |
| 4 | The attempted coup of December 1989 against President Corazon Aquino [ see pp. 37120-21 ] had wider support than initially acknowledged , with an estimated 70 per cent of the armed forces willing to support a regime installed by the coup plotters , according to intelligence sources . |
| 5 | Incomplete official voting figures announced on March 25 gave Soglo 67.6 per cent of votes , Kerekou 32.2 per cent , with an estimated 64 per cent turnout . |
| 6 | The official results of the May 11 contest were not expected until June , and then had to be endorsed by Congress , but , with an estimated 86 per cent of the votes counted , unofficial tallies showed Ramos leading his closest rivals , Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco and former judge Miriam Defensor Santiago , by a comfortable but not extensive margin . |
| 7 | Over the period 1957–65 for US manufacturing , extra sales by overseas subsidiaries counted for an estimated 13 per cent of the total increase in production ( additional exports accounted for only a trivial 2 per cent ) . |
| 8 | Other regulations were also relaxed , but it was still envisaged that the state would retain 51 per cent participation in publicly controlled banks ( accounting for an estimated 80 per cent of the sector ) . |
| 9 | On March 7 hundreds of government employees had reportedly rioted in Salta , 1,600 km north-west of Buenos Aires , in protest at Menem 's plans to cut state spending , and thousands more participated in a nationwide strike on March 21 , an estimated 40,000 demonstrating in Buenos Aires for an end to privatization and for wage increases to compensate for an estimated 40 per cent rise in prices in the first two weeks of the month . |
| 10 | Although the sustained overall economic growth over the years 1987-89 brought the country to the verge of being given NIC ( newly industrialized country ) status , early forecasts predicted that gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth would slow down in 1990 to around 6.5 per cent , from an estimated 7.3-7.5 per cent in 1989 and from 8.7 per cent in 1988 . |
| 11 | There was also expected to be ( i ) an attempt to reduce inflation to about 3 per cent per month ( from an estimated 30-40 per cent ) ; ( ii ) a budget deficit target of below 5 per cent of gross national product ; and ( iii ) a gradual rise in energy prices to achieve parity with world prices by the end of 1993 . |
| 12 | Inflation had been reduced from an estimated 95 per cent in March to 11.4 per cent in April and the local currency , the austral had been stabilized against the US dollar , firming from around US$1=6,000 australs in March to US$1=5,000 australs as at May 31 . |
| 13 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 14 | According to the administration 's budget proposals , the budget deficit would reach a record $318,100 million in fiscal 1991 but drop to $280,900 million in fiscal 1992 , based on an estimated 5.7 per cent rise in revenues to $1,165,000 million . |
| 15 | In an effort to reduce it , the government increased interest rates , which restricted growth to an estimated 6.5 per cent in 1990 , almost a full percentage point down from the 1989 figure . |
| 16 | The increase in the number of very old people over 85 is up from 1.03 per cent of the population in 1981 to an estimated 1.9 per cent in 2001 ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 17 | The public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) , which had been reduced from 17.9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1985 to 13.2 per cent in 1987 , rose again , to an estimated 21.5 per cent of GDP in 1989 . |
| 18 | The Colne Centre at Severalls Hospital , Colchester , is aimed at the estimated ten per cent of the population who suffer from incontinence . |
| 19 | In 1990 gross national product ( GNP ) contracted by an estimated 5 per cent and was expected to fall a further 3-4 per cent in 1991 . |
| 20 | Interim pre-tax profits rose by an estimated 10 per cent to £17m in the six months to 1 October . |
| 21 | The economy grew by an estimated 9.9 per cent in 1990 , following growth rates of 12.2 per cent in 1989 and 13.2 per cent in 1988 . |
| 22 | Since the Gulf war , the United States and Britain have used the United Nations to bleed Iraq ; and the sufferers have been primarily children , whose death-rate has increased by an estimated 400 per cent . |
| 23 | On July 17 the country 's commercial creditor banks reportedly agreed terms necessary for Uruguay to undertake a buy-back of US$1,000 million of its debt , thereby reducing its medium-term bank debt by an estimated 60 per cent . |
| 24 | In anticipation of this , and at a time when the economy was already in grave crisis as a result of the US economic embargo , the collapse of trade with eastern Europe ( currently down by an estimated 90 per cent ) and poor sugar harvests , the Cuban government had been preparing the population for worse times ahead . |
| 25 | The numbers playing in Ulster has increased by an estimated 40 per cent in the last decade or so . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Clinton 's dignified television performance ( seen by an estimated 40 per cent of the electorate ) , together with inconsistencies in some of the claims of Flowers , and the withdrawal of the Nichols lawsuit , appeared to have rescued the Governor 's campaign from the point of destruction . |