Example sentences of "it [be] estimate [that] [ex0] " in BNC.

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1 It 's estimated that there are over 2.5 million people in debt in Britain , their debts can range from getting behind on hire purchase agreements to substantial mortgage arrears .
2 In Britain in 1991 it is estimated that there are 8,838,000 persons aged 65 and over ( and more than 10 million of pensionable age ) , representing some 15.8% of the total population .
3 It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents per annum , many more than road accidents .
4 It is estimated that there are still about 20 hectares in production , mostly in the Aube and in Vertus on the Côte des Blancs .
5 Exact numbers of step-families are unknown , but it is estimated that there are between 1 and 1 .
6 Since then , the number of bail information schemes has expanded considerably , and it is estimated that there will be more than 100 in operation by April 1992 ( NACRO , 1990a ) .
7 It is estimated that there are 7,000 inmates in Britain 's prisons requiring specific help for mental disorder , and while it is possible for prisoners to receive psychiatric treatment from visiting consultants while in prison , facilities on the whole are poor and the environment is far from conducive to improving a person 's mental state .
8 Around Britain it is estimated that there are now 180,000 single people without a permanent home who live in temporary shelters , hostels or on the streets .
9 It is estimated that there are around 9,000 women who work on the streets or in the bars of Olongapo as prostitutes or ’ hospitality workers ’ .
10 It is estimated that there has been about 1000km of lateral movement along the fault system over the past 25 Ma .
11 It is estimated that there are ‘ thousands ’ of parcels of land currently occupied under Ministry Licence .
12 It is estimated that there are six million people in the UK who are able to use existing designs of bus only with great difficulty or not at all .
13 Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown .
14 Before the war it was estimated that there were 100,000 monks in Burma , supposedly concentrating on religious duties and doing no menial work in their monasteries but relying on daily gifts of food from the faithful .
15 Moreover , there would be considerable scope for a centrally planned scheme of retraction across the six hospitals , since it was estimated that there would be a 34–42 per cent reduction in the psychiatric hospital population by 1986 .
16 By the early 1970s it was estimated that there were already over five million campers and caravanners and three million anglers .
17 Further concern centred on a proposal to award full employment rights to temporary or migrant workers working on temporary contract , of whom it was estimated that there were over 1,000,000 in April 1990 .
18 It was estimated that there were around 50,000,000 Europeans who spoke one of the 40-60 regional or minority languages as defined by the convention .
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