Example sentences of "accord [prep] one estimate " in BNC.
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| 1 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 2 | Besides , there is a back-log of acidity already in the soil ; and according to one estimate , Scottish lochs would remain at their disastrously acid level even if present acid fallout was halved by AD 2000 . |
| 3 | According to one estimate , China 's reserves amount to 100 million tonnes , as against 30 million tonnes in the rest of the world . |
| 4 | According to one estimate , the country could be short of as many as 180 000 computer specialists by 1985 . |
| 5 | A third of all women in Britain now take some form of dietary supplement according to one estimate , and chemicals giant Fisons believes that as many as 40% of the adult population have tried these products at some time . |
| 6 | According to one estimate , these abuses and the ravages of European diseases and starvation reduced the indigenous population of the Americas from 100 to 10 million in the first century of conquest . |
| 7 | The fleet of gas-fuelled vehicles could grow , according to one estimate , from 30,000 in 1992 to more than 9m by 2010 . |
| 8 | African leaders have some $10 billion on deposit in Swiss banks , according to one estimate ; Mr Eigen thinks that dud projects built as a vehicle for bribes may account for up to a third of developing-country debt . |
| 9 | According to one estimate , the NHS loses over £180m ( $177m ) a year from pilfering . |
| 10 | To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes . |
| 11 | These analysts were also concerned about Indonesia 's debt , which at the end of 1989 stood , according to one estimate , at $58,000 million . |
| 12 | According to one estimate in the Financial Times of Feb. 28 , it would take at least a year to restore full electricity supplies to the capital . |
| 13 | The year 1858 witnessed about 100 peasant disturbances in Estonia , almost as many as the 123 which , according to one estimate , took place in all the Russian provinces of the empire put together . |
| 14 | RENFE , according to one estimate , had seen some forty study commissions by the early 1980s ( Nueva Empresa , no. 193 , 15 October 1983 ) , and a major commission of inquiry set up by the government reported in 1984 ( CEFE 1984 ) . |