Example sentences of "estimate [that] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of July we estimated that the industrial action had added 65,000 patients to the waiting lists in English hospitals alone . |
| 2 | Fleischmann and Pons estimated that the chemical potential of the deuterium could be raised by 0.8 eV through application of electrical potentials to the palladium cathode . |
| 3 | In 1976 the Department of Health and Social Security estimated that the total cost to central and local government funds of an equal pension age of 60 would exceed £2,000 million a year , or about £100 a worker . |
| 4 | The government estimated that the total cost of the damage could exceed US$3,000 million . |
| 5 | On April 8 the governor of the south-eastern region , Hayri Kozacioglu , estimated that the total number of refugees had risen to 400,000 . |
| 6 | Analysts estimated that the total loss in market capitalization during this period had exceeded 300,000,000 million yen , or more than US $2,000,000 million . |
| 7 | He also estimated that the Union-wide budget deficit would total Rbs200,000 million by the end of the year . |
| 8 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 9 | Waigel 's calculations were also questioned by Jürgen Möllemann , the Economics Minister , whose department estimated that the federal government net borrowing requirement would increase to DM55,000 million by 1995 from DM52,000 million in 1992 ( US$1=DM1.6414 as at May 1 , 1991 ) . |
| 10 | Extrapolating his results to the entire Nature Reserve , Onyeanusi estimated that the actual loss of biomass was low . |
| 11 | The consultants estimated that the annual savings could range up to £192 million . |
| 12 | The IAEA estimated that the annual rate of growth of nuclear energy production would increase from an average of 2.8 per cent in 1989 to 3.9 per cent a year worldwide by 2005 . |
| 13 | Mr Lamont estimated that the four moves would save the Exchequer £70 million in the next tax year , rising to more than £480 million the following year . |
| 14 | ( The US administration estimated that the vast majority of the Soviet Union 's 27,000 nuclear warheads were deployed in Russia but that several thousand were in Byelorussia , Ukraine , and Kazakhstan . ) |
| 15 | From what he had seen he estimated that the low-velocity rounds had been fired at a maximum of a dozen paces . |
| 16 | The report estimated that the current extent of tropical forest was 8,000,000 sq km . |
| 17 | In 1985 , the Liverpool University Research Group estimated that the black economy in the United Kingdom amounted to 14.5 per cent of national income . |
| 18 | Chase Manhattan estimated that the worldwide rate of profit for leading oil companies rose from 9.7 per cent in 1972 to 19.2 per cent in 1974 and 24.0 per cent in 1979 . |
| 19 | Eden estimated that the Cornish tin and copper miners earned around 10s ( 50p ) a week in 1797 , while a select committee of 1799 gave a monthly range of £1 10s to £2 2s ( £1.50p — £2.10 ) . |
| 20 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 21 | It estimated that the Ethiopian provinces of Tigray and Eritrea required urgent food aid of 980,000 tonnes , and that Sudan needed 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 22 | It estimated that the full implementation of debt relief plans would remove up to US$6,000 million from outstanding debt ( around 8 per cent ) , but still leave the region owing the equivalent of 106 per cent of annual gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 23 | With BP estimating that the new field contains 250 million to 500 million barrels of oil , the 30 per cent reduction in Shell 's stake meant the transfer of oil worth at least £1 billion at current prices . |
| 24 | It is estimated that the extra costs involved in employing the extra 20 officers would be £331,700 . |
| 25 | It is estimated that the extra costs involved in employing the extra 20 officers would be £331,700 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 28 | The European Commission ( the EC 's executive body ) has estimated that the new treatment plants and drainage systems required will cost about 40 billion ecus . |
| 29 | In the first year it is estimated that the new law saved 200 children from being killed or seriously injured . |
| 30 | Specialists have estimated that the first decade of dismantling will cost 2.5 billion roubles . |