Example sentences of "[be] estimated to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has been estimated to be up to 100,000 , of whom AIDS had been officially reported in 4228 , by January 1991 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | In the UK , the assets in pension schemes are estimated to be over £300 billion . |
| 4 | Losses in connection with the Los Angeles riots in April are estimated to be around [ 5m , net of reinsurance . |
| 5 | Spinner dolphins are frequently taken in set-nets around Sri Lanka , where about 17,000 are estimated to be incidentally caught each year . |
| 6 | About 150 are estimated to be still in jail . |
| 7 | World reserves of coal of various types are estimated to be around nine hundred billion ( 9 x 10 11 ) tonnes . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | There are estimated to be about 6,000 Shar Peis in the world now . |
| 10 | Discovered in 1855 , there are estimated to be only 1,000 specimens left in the wild . |
| 11 | The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually . |
| 12 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 13 | At the end of December 1990 there were estimated to be more than 92,000 neighbourhood watch schemes in England and Wales , covering nearly 5 million households . |
| 14 | In the mid 1960s annual world catches of beluga were estimated to be around 5000 — 6000 , and 20 years ago in the USSR alone , catches were 3000–4000 . |
| 15 | Volunteer labour was needed to reduce the cost of the construction of 66 games facilities to $18,000,000 , at a time when Cuba 's international reserves were estimated to be less than $100,000,000 and the national debt stood at $7,000 million . |
| 16 | Out of some 50,000,000 deaths worldwide in 1990 46,500,000 were estimated to be directly associated with disease . |
| 17 | The Select Committee on Agriculture , of which I am a member , is about to launch a major inquiry into Britain 's food trade gap , which is estimated to be about £6 billion . |
| 18 | Only a slight change is forecast for the area of cereals this year which at 46,300 hectares is estimated to be less than 1pc below that for last year . |
| 19 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 20 | This effect is estimated to be only 17% in Model 3 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The angle of view was not measured accurately , but was estimated to be about 70° i.e. near the optimum viewing angle . |
| 23 | In rural areas , however , literacy in any language was estimated to be only 20 per cent . |
| 24 | In these areas the turnout was estimated to be only 10 per cent . |