Example sentences of "[pron] is estimate that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is estimated that by the first decade of next century , only 20 per cent of the peat soils now present on the 561 square kilometres marked by the soil map of the Ely district will remain . |
| 32 | It is estimated that a fall in oil prices costs the Soviet Union about $500 million per dollar off the price of crude . |
| 33 | It is estimated that British Gas 's contracted supplies from the North Sea will start to run down from 1984 and by 1995 will meet only one-third of UK needs . |
| 34 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |
| 35 | In Western Europe it is estimated that new cars will become , on average , 2% more fuel efficient per year to 1990 , Europe 's motor manufacturers having given the commitment to governments to improve the fuel efficiency of their 1985 models by 10% over the 1978 efficiency level . |
| 36 | In the UK where a comparatively large amount of research has been carried out into wave power it is estimated that with wave generators along the 1,450 kilometre coastline , 50% of the UK 's electricity requirements could be supplied . |
| 37 | It is estimated that in rural areas four million people live more than five miles from a CAB . |
| 38 | It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school . |
| 39 | Now it is estimated that some 38 per cent of people are literate — but the figure for women is only 22 per cent . |
| 40 | In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives . |
| 41 | Of some 200,000 children displaced by the war , it is estimated that about 80,000 are not in school . |
| 42 | Leaving aside the question of a total reform of the education system , it is estimated that to provide all children with roughly the same standard of provision as white children have now would entail at least doubling or trebling the education budget . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Locally , it is estimated that more than half the 200 Health Authorities in England and Wales designated a responsible officer , and that there was a greater volume and variety of activity than ever before : traditional courses were supplemented by a new range of imaginative options , to which more managers than ever before had access . |
| 45 | Taking the present temperature gradient of 15°F per 1000 ft ( 28°C per km ) measured in the Larne-2 borehole as representative of the post-Triassic history of the area , it is estimated that where source rocks now occur beneath the Permo-Triassic of the Larne and Lough Neagh basins at depths in excess of about 11,000 feet , they would be expected to be within the gas zone with their coals generating abundant methane . |
| 46 | It is estimated that as a general rule these stores will accommodate about 3,500,000 sq ft of timber , or about 300,000 cub ft . |
| 47 | It is estimated that , apart from troops conveyed by ordinary existing services , the L & NWR carried upwards of 25.1/2 millions of His Majesty 's forces , together with the necessary complement of horses , guns , baggage , etc . |
| 48 | It is estimated that this will cost 10 times as much as the original research . |
| 49 | In Britain it is estimated that eighty-three per cent of these carers have no outside help whatsoever . |
| 50 | By 1793 it is estimated that West Prussia — the area that now contained Danzig and Pomerania — had a total population of around 647,000 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | It is estimated that in the years 1896–1913 German landholdings declined by over 98,000 hectares , 20,000 of which were in and around Danzig . |
| 53 | It is estimated that every chlorine molecule has the ability to destroy 100,000 ozone molecules . |
| 54 | CFCs are a fraction of the emissions of carbon dioxide but nevertheless it is estimated that , unless the Montreal Protocol is strengthened , CFCs will account for 13 per cent of global warming by 2030 . |
| 55 | One in four products from the chemist will contain chemical compounds derived from rainforest plants , and it is estimated that to date only one per cent of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use . |
| 56 | It is estimated that approximately 500,000 adults in Great Britain suffer from agoraphobia to some extent . |
| 57 | FLOORS It is estimated that 15 per cent of home heat is lost through timber floors . |
| 58 | However , it is estimated that although there is a lot of work going on in ESs in universities , companies and research departments worldwide , only a few dozen are in regular use in aircraft maintenance . |
| 59 | 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 . ’ |
| 60 | It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents per annum , many more than road accidents . |