Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] estimate [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's now estimated that five hundred children in Lothian Region alone are affected by HIV and AIDS . |
| 2 | It is conservatively estimated that not less than 120,000 persons have died of actual starvation during the last two years in the Lebanon alone . |
| 3 | If these measures were applied to the country as a whole , it is conservatively estimated that a reduction of over 10,000 in jury accidents could be achieved every year . |
| 4 | It is also estimated that 37 Tory backbenchers are set to vote against the government in Wednesday 's Maastricht debate , making the result too close to call . |
| 5 | It is currently estimated that , for every £100 million invested in trunk road improvements , about 100 road deaths and 4,500 casualties are saved over a 30-year period . |
| 6 | It is further estimated that in the majority of such accidents speed is a contributory factor . |
| 7 | It is now estimated that about twenty kilograms of uranium escaped through the pile chimneys , posing a risk even greater than that from the short-lived 1957 accident . |
| 8 | It was generally estimated that the government would be able to secure 25 per cent of the votes to have an effective veto , whereas the ANC would be unlikely to win the support of more than 70 per cent of the interim government . |
| 9 | It was also estimated that 60 per cent of the fruit and vegetable crop had been lost , although this could be blamed in part on almost continuous rain between late August and October in the main vegetable-growing belt of central European Russia , Byelorussia and the north Ukraine , with the result that crops had rotted in waterlogged fields . |
| 10 | It was also estimated that some 275,000 of the hurricane 's victims remained without electricity and that 150,000 were homeless . |
| 11 | It was later estimated that , because of the rising price of oil and increasing production quotas set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) , this figure was an underestimate . |
| 12 | Clashes and scores of casualties continued elsewhere in south-east Turkey , where it was now estimated that about one-third of the Turkish army , or 150,000 troops , were deployed . |