Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it [be] estimate that " in BNC.

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1 Only 6 per cent of education spending came from the federal budget and it was estimated that the cost of Bush 's proposals would at federal level absorb $820 million of the federal budget of $27,100 million for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1 .
2 Therefore , he is likely to nominate those whose views seem most in line with his own , although there is no way a president can guarantee the direction of a justice 's decision and it is estimated that the President 's choices have backfired in a quarter of appointments .
3 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 .
4 In 1881 , the leader of the Blue Ribbon Mission came to town and it was estimated that a quarter of the 32,000 population were ‘ blue-ribboners ’ , or had taken the pledge .
5 Sixty per cent of the ships carry oil or oil derivatives , natural gas , chemicals or nuclear waste and it is estimated that an additional 75 million tonnes of oil would pass through the Bosphorus each year " the equivalent of four supertankers a day " if oil from Azerbaijan 's oil fields was pumped to a Black Sea port for onward shipment .
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