Example sentences of "be estimated [that] [adj] [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 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that retrospective appeals from Scottish landowners over previously designated SSSIs — there are currently 1300 — could cost SNH £1.5m a year , 7.5% of their budget . |
| 4 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 5 | RECYCLED PAPER It is estimated that certain plastics will take over 400 years to disintegrate , so that is why we are introducing more recyclable plastic , which can be melted down and re-used . |
| 6 | It is estimated that 60,000 sites are worthy of scheduling . |
| 7 | Of an edition of Luther 's Bible printed in Wittenberg in 1534 , it is estimated that 100,000 copies were sold in forty years . |
| 8 | The hard disk is now down to 50% , and it is estimated that all non-Accounts files will be off the system by the end of June . |
| 9 | IT is estimated that all employees who originally applied to participate in Heartwatch will have undertaken an appointment by the middle of this year . |
| 10 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 11 | This is particularly apparent in Central America , where it is estimated that seasonal migrants make up 70 per cent of the labour force employed in agriculture . |
| 12 | It is estimated that 1,000 courses were built in England in 1990 alone . |
| 13 | It is estimated that 1,000 units could be sold at £1 each . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Worst affected is Somalia , where it 's estimated that three children are dying every minute . |
| 16 | It was estimated that 40,000 houses would be built over three years with this money , to house some 250,000 people . |
| 17 | most school librarians have experience of pupils losing library tickets , it was estimated that individual cards would need replacing regularly . |
| 18 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 19 | In 1989 , it was estimated that sharp instruments were used in one in three aggravated burglaries , one in five robberies , one in 17 offences of violence against the person and one in 100 sexual offences . |
| 20 | It was estimated that some units ( railway troops , civil defence and military construction units ) would be without recruits , partly because of deferred service and sickness , but also because of the creation of independent armed forces in the former Soviet republics . |
| 21 | 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 . |