Example sentences of "estimate of the number [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone-parent families are not a homogeneous group and it is difficult to obtain reliable estimates of the numbers of families and children involved . |
| 2 | Estimates of the number of adults with cystic fibrosis in different age groups alive at the middle of 1990 were obtained from the United Kingdom Cystic Fibrosis Survey ( J Dodge , personal communication ) . |
| 3 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 4 | • Estimates of the number of journalists at the S-class release varied between 600 to 700 . |
| 5 | Estimates of the number of deaths among men caused each year by alcohol abuse range from 8,000 to 25,000 |
| 6 | Does the Ministry of Defence yet have an estimate of the number of personnel families who will not be able to make provision for their own housing ? |
| 7 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 8 | Against each one of these headings , you should have an estimate of the number of hours that you propose to charge the defendants . |
| 9 | It is for British Coal to decide what manpower it requires However the Government need to make some estimate of the number of redundancies in order to seek the necessary estimate provision for restructuring grant . ’ |
| 10 | Narcotics agents believe a conservative estimate of the number of laboratories is between 200 and 300 . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the number of crimes committed in 1991 . |
| 12 | In mid-summer , when the marks are most fully expressed , the genotypes of most plants can be identified in the field and an estimate of the number of clones present within an area can be made : it will , of course , be a minimal estimate . |
| 13 | All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths . |