Example sentences of "it [be] estimate [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's estimated that the trade is worth up to £1.5 million a year , with huntsmen collecting , on average , around £5,000 a year and in some cases as much as £20,000 . |
| 2 | It 's estimated that the workers will be travelling back and forth from France until Christmas . |
| 3 | It 's estimated that the earthquake in India has claimed twenty thousand lives . |
| 4 | It is estimated that every year more than 200 billion tonnes of carbon are exchanged between the atmosphere , living things and the ocean in a natural cycle . |
| 5 | It is estimated that every chlorine molecule has the ability to destroy 100,000 ozone molecules . |
| 6 | IT IS ESTIMATED THAT EVERY YEAR : |
| 7 | Over one and a half million pensioners ( 15% ) , claimed the means tested top up Income Support in 1989–90 , and it is estimated that a further 0.9 million were eligible , but did not claim . |
| 8 | It is estimated that a fall in oil prices costs the Soviet Union about $500 million per dollar off the price of crude . |
| 9 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 10 | It is estimated that a database of this size could contain the following ( note that these figures are only estimates ) : |
| 11 | Sixty per cent of the ships carry oil or oil derivatives , natural gas , chemicals or nuclear waste and it is estimated that an additional 75 million tonnes of oil would pass through the Bosphorus each year " the equivalent of four supertankers a day " if oil from Azerbaijan 's oil fields was pumped to a Black Sea port for onward shipment . |
| 12 | It is estimated that the cost of completing the excavation and related research will be about £40,000 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
| 15 | In 1991 it is estimated that the young elderly represent 56% of all elderly persons , and further proportionate falls are anticipated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’ |
| 20 | Provision is made for deferred taxation only to the extent that it is probable that the tax will become payable , and is at the rate at which it is estimated that the tax will be paid . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is estimated that the value of resources transferred by the Soviet Union out of Eastern Europe between 1945–1956 approximated the value of Marshall Plan aid transferred by the United States into Western Europe during the same period . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the first year it is estimated that the new law saved 200 children from being killed or seriously injured . |
| 25 | It is estimated that the largest proportion of searches takes place following the consent of the occupier . |
| 26 | It is estimated that the number of people aged between sixteen and nineteen will fall by over 850,000 between 1987 and 1995 — a reduction of nearly 25 per cent . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is estimated that the ozone layer over northern Europe will have been considerably damaged by the end of the century . |
| 29 | It is estimated that the tally of films , over the world , exceeds 400 . |
| 30 | Over eighteen years it is estimated that the farm yielded around £50,000 net profit . |