Example sentences of "be estimated [that] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres !
2 It has been estimated that the total fees paid to third parties in the take-over process in the UK in 1985 came to £500 million , about 7 per cent of the value of the transactions , and the figure will be much higher in the case of contested bids .
3 Prior to the announcement of the additional two it had been estimated that the total capital cost of the 26 new prisons would be 870 million at an average cost per place of 69,200 .
4 It has been estimated that the real cost of an average package holiday was 16 per cent less in 1987 than 1980 , and this value for money is likely to keep the large groups well placed at the top of the market share listings .
5 It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week .
6 It has been estimated that the general cost of correcting errors including scrap and rework can be as high as 20 per cent of turnover in manufacturing industry .
7 It has been estimated that the average person in Europe and North America obtains 70 per cent of daily nitrate intake from vegetables and 21 per cent from drinking water .
8 And then in addition to that if you were a poor peasant who had to hire land from somebody else , you would of course pay rent and in the nineteen thirties it 's been estimated that the average rent paid by a poor peasant farming somebody else 's land was forty five percent of the harvest .
9 It has been estimated that the cratering rate today ( see section 8.1 ) is about 3 times what it was 850 Ma ago , and Figure 6.9 is brought up to today on this basis .
10 If a more reliable hip replacement had been used it is estimated that the Swedish community would have saved $20m , never mind the human suffering .
11 It is estimated that the present net movement along the fault involves an average of 40 mm a- of transform motion and about 22 mm a- of orthogonal convergence ( Fig.3.29 ) .
12 It is estimated that the largest proportion of searches takes place following the consent of the occupier .
13 It is estimated that the extra costs involved in employing the extra 20 officers would be £331,700 .
14 It is estimated that the extra costs involved in employing the extra 20 officers would be £331,700 .
15 In the first year it is estimated that the new law saved 200 children from being killed or seriously injured .
16 In 1991 it is estimated that the young elderly represent 56% of all elderly persons , and further proportionate falls are anticipated .
17 It is estimated that the total area under crops — 61,000 hectares — is 8pc smaller than last year , with 2pc more farmland now under grass .
18 It is estimated that the 150 men could produce 10,000 tons of coal a week .
19 It is estimated that the three million trees required for the new forest — mainly broadleaved tree species interspersed with conifers — will take 30-40 years to plant and cost £3 million .
20 In 1772 , when Frederick had admitted to the Danzig Chamber that the population of Pomerania was mainly Polish , it is estimated that the German speakers formed only about 13 per cent of the Pomeranian noble element .
21 It is estimated that the potential levy off live lamb exports is £750,000 a year .
22 First , it was estimated that the annual cost of the scheme to the Council would possibly be of the order of £1.25 million .
23 Based on photos taken by the US satellite , Landsat 5 , it was estimated that the total area cleared in 1991 was 11,132 square kilometres , equivalent to 0.3 per cent of the Amazon land area .
24 It was estimated that the average sum raised per branch member to finance the work of the Eastern District and its branches as a whole for the year had been £1 3s. 4d .
25 By 1907 it was estimated that the average daily attendance in the city 's nickelodeons was 100,000 and very naturally local politicians , reformers , and social workers were anxious to assess the significance of this statistic .
26 Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP .
27 It was estimated that the average cost ranged from 200,000 to 300,000 yen ( £440 to £660 ) although a few spent as much as one million yen .
28 Grain should also be used more efficiently , through better processing and improved fodder mixes ( it was estimated that the Soviet Union lost 29,000,000 tonnes of grain , 1,000,000 tonnes of meat and one-third of all fruit and vegetables per year during collection , processing and storage ) .
29 It was estimated that the co-ordinated European Community and Italian relief efforts would keep Albania supplied with bread-making grain until the end of January 1992 .
30 It was estimated that the consequent loss of exports and the extra imports needed to compensate for the shortfall could cost the economy up to US$2,000,000 million in 1990 .
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