Example sentences of "and it [be] estimated [that] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Badger-baiting is at an all-time high in East and North Yorkshire and it is estimated that each year in Great Britain as many as 9,000 badgers meet a premature death .
2 Between the surrender and December 1948 the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce retail price index rose by 4000 per cent and it is estimated that black market prices increased at double this rate .
3 The hard disk is now down to 50% , and it is estimated that all non-Accounts files will be off the system by the end of June .
4 The business gift sector is characterised by seasonal demand , and it is estimated that 80 per cent of this business is conducted in the last two months of every year .
5 Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California .
6 The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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