Example sentences of "it [vb past] [be] estimate [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 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 | On the basis of earlier work relying on measuring footprints , it had been estimated that their must be at least 60 rhinos in the park . |
| 5 | It had been estimated that savings of up to £40,000 a school could be made through closures , but that was not the only factor taken into consideration , he said . |