Example sentences of "be estimate that [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 2 | It is estimated that 60,000 sites are worthy of scheduling . |
| 3 | Of an edition of Luther 's Bible printed in Wittenberg in 1534 , it is estimated that 100,000 copies were sold in forty years . |
| 4 | It is estimated that 1,000 courses were built in England in 1990 alone . |
| 5 | It is estimated that 1,000 units could be sold at £1 each . |
| 6 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 7 | Worst affected is Somalia , where it 's estimated that three children are dying every minute . |
| 8 | It was estimated that 40,000 houses would be built over three years with this money , to house some 250,000 people . |
| 9 | In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour . |