Example sentences of "estimated to be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world 's population , currently estimated to be about 5,300 million , was expected to increase by another 1,000 million by the year 2000 . |
| 2 | There are estimated to be about 6,000 Shar Peis in the world now . |
| 3 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |
| 4 | Proven natural gas reserves ( of which 40 per cent are in the USSR ) are estimated to be about 82 x 10 12 cubic metres ( equivalent in energy to about 740 x 10 9 tonnes of oil ) . |
| 5 | The upper critical field was estimated to be about 800,000 times stronger than the earth 's magnetic field , advantageous for applications of the superconductor . |
| 6 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 7 | The rate of eustatic change producible by this process has been estimated to be about three orders of magnitude slower than that produced by the climatically induced fluctuations of the Pleistocene ( Pitman , 1978 ) . |