Example sentences of "it [was/were] estimate that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole of Radnor , most of Brecknock and much of Montgomery lacked this facility , and it was estimated that 14.5 per cent of the population of rural Wales was without effective public transport to work . |
| 2 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 3 | These treatments led to cation losses of 100–240 kg per ha per annum calcium and 30–80 of magnesium , for example , but it was estimated that such would be restored through rainfall input over 10–20 years of fallow ; the 1300 1400kg of nitrogen appears to be more easily replaced as fixation rates of 100–150 kg per ha per annum were recorded . |
| 4 | It was estimated that 40,000 houses would be built over three years with this money , to house some 250,000 people . |
| 5 | In 1989 , it was estimated that sharp instruments were used in one in three aggravated burglaries , one in five robberies , one in 17 offences of violence against the person and one in 100 sexual offences . |
| 6 | When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ . |
| 7 | In July 1982 it was estimated that 300,000 people in the UK suffered from tinnitus which interfered with their ability to lead normal lives . |
| 8 | It was estimated that annual defence spending by developing countries totalled around US$170,000 million , or 5 per cent of their combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and more than three times the total value of aid transfers from the industrialized world . |
| 9 | Even worse , it was estimated that two of the unproductive classes , the nobility and the Church , held two-thirds of the land of Spain in entail and mortmain . |
| 10 | most school librarians have experience of pupils losing library tickets , it was estimated that individual cards would need replacing regularly . |
| 11 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 12 | It was estimated that another 50,000 jobs in British factories and workshops had been sustained by it . |
| 13 | It was estimated that 25,000 people would be affected . |
| 14 | The students were given three lectures a day ( Simonds was strongly against any more lecturing than this ) and it was estimated that 50 to 60 horses were available for examination each day . |
| 15 | Office employment was one of the major growth sectors of the economy in the 1950s and 1960s , and by the early 1970s it was estimated that one-quarter of total employment was in offices ( Goddard 1978 ) . |
| 16 | It was estimated that 20 per cent of the grape harvest had been lost . |
| 17 | Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas . |
| 18 | In 1893 it was estimated that 60 000 organic compounds were known . |
| 19 | In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour . |
| 20 | By 1975 it was estimated that seven per cent of the population would be under fifteen and thirty per cent would be over sixty , compared with twenty-five per cent and twelve per cent respectively in 1938 , ( Charles , 1935 ) . |
| 21 | It was estimated that seven people were killed in rioting between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10 . |
| 22 | By 1949 the world 's airlines had carried over twenty million paying passengers , by 1956 the figure had reached over sixty million and it was estimated that 90 per cent of the world 's land surface could be reached by the traveller . |
| 23 | In Sweden in 1988 it was estimated that some 15,000 lakes were acidified , just over 1,800 of which were ‘ seriously ’ acidified ; 100,000 km of rivers and streams were also affected . |
| 24 | In 1979 , it was estimated that some 24.8% of all qualified doctors were living abroad . |
| 25 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 26 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 27 | It was estimated that some units ( railway troops , civil defence and military construction units ) would be without recruits , partly because of deferred service and sickness , but also because of the creation of independent armed forces in the former Soviet republics . |
| 28 | Of these 133 new Majlis members , it was estimated that some 55 were supporters of Rafsanjani and that many of the remainder were reported to be independent candidates likely to align themselves with the President 's faction . |
| 29 | It was estimated that 10,000 Niueans live and work in New Zealand . |
| 30 | ( It was estimated that 35,000,000 US citizens had no health insurance , and that a further 60,000,000 were inadequately covered . ) |