Example sentences of "be estimated [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that the majority of the great London families survived there for no more than three generations in the male line , and it was certainly rare for men to prefer city life to that of the country ( 104 , p.205 ) . |
| 3 | Without the adjustment , it had been estimated that the budget deficit would have exceeded L147,000,000 million , which was the level predicted by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in criticisms made at the time of the adoption of the 1990 budget in December 1989 [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the capital cost of a 1,000 MW installation on the UK coast could be comparable with the cost of a conventional power station of the same capacity but this does not take into account the amount of R & D necessary both to develop a 2MW , 100-metre diameter aerogenerator and to design the kind of structures and transmission systems to withstand the rigours of the ocean . |
| 5 | Indeed it has been estimated that the presence of hedgerows reduces the output of cereals farms by up to 15 per cent . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that the Cheju rebellion involved 30,000 deaths , approximately 10 per cent of the population . |
| 7 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
| 9 | It has been estimated that the amount of fossil fuels that will be consumed between AD 2000 and AD 2050 will be over three times the amount consumed between AD 1 and AD 2000 . |
| 10 | It had previously been estimated that the programme would allow 100,000-170,000 people who had arrived in Spain before May 15 , 1991 , to regularize their status . |
| 11 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 12 | It is estimated that the tally of films , over the world , exceeds 400 . |
| 13 | It is estimated that the cost of completing the excavation and related research will be about £40,000 . |
| 14 | It is estimated that the cost of such a system of local government would be around £1 million , against the £18 million projected savings associated with the creation of a single council for Edinburgh and the Lothians . |
| 15 | For the industrial sector , it is estimated that the cost has fallen by more than 25 per cent . |
| 16 | In addition , it is estimated that the cost of recruitment , e.g. advertising , will cost £3,000 . |
| 17 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
| 18 | IBM 's investment in Supercomputing Systems has never been disclosed , but it is estimated that the company needed at least $200m to get this far . |
| 19 | In addition , it is estimated that the company employs around forty marketing , personnel , production and accountancy executives . |
| 20 | It is estimated that the incidence of port wine stain birthmarks is three per 1,000 births in the UK . |
| 21 | It is estimated that the majority of adults have a speaking vocabulary of 3000 to 5000 words although their reading vocabulary may well be more . |
| 22 | It is estimated that the station , the first of its kind to be constructed in Europe , will use about 200,000 tons of this particular biofuel per year , generating enough electricity to supply 10,000 houses . |
| 23 | It is estimated that the play park will attract 2,000 visits-a-week . |
| 24 | It is estimated that the worm population in the average herbaceous garden is about a quarter of a million per hectare , which is roughly a hundred thousand per acre . |
| 25 | In 1980–1 , a fairly typical year , the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture for land-drainage schemes , including some urban work , amounted to about £30.5 million , of which £23.7 million was allocated to the water authorities , while the rest went to internal drainage boards and local authorities.2 In that year it is estimated that the water authorities spent around £40 million on capital drainage schemes for agriculture . |
| 26 | It is estimated that the growth of credit is overestimated by about 2% because of this . |
| 27 | It is estimated that the ozone layer over northern Europe will have been considerably damaged by the end of the century . |
| 28 | For a 10,000 million tonne nuclear war scenario , it is estimated that the ozone column would be reduced by between 30 and 70 per cent in the northern hemisphere and by up to 40 per cent in the southern hemisphere ( Crutzen and Birks , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1975b ; Turco et al. , 1983 ; Whitten et al. , 1975 ) . |
| 29 | Since the Museum was initiated on the site , it is estimated that the volunteers on site have contributed over 40,000 hours of work on the cars , aircraft and buildings on the complex . |
| 30 | It is estimated that the demand by the turn of the century will be 6000 million m 3 . |