Example sentences of "estimates [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really drives the case for co-operative R&D ventures is the existence of technological spillovers , and it is , therefore , worth looking at the empirical literature on different methods of appropriation , the determinants of imitation costs and imitation times , and estimates of the size of spillovers . |
| 2 | Estimates of the proportion of patients with coeliac disease who present in their seventh decade or beyond have increased from 4% in 1960 to 27% in 1980 . |
| 3 | Many labs also gave inaccurate , and widely varying , estimates of the amount of pesticides present . |
| 4 | Estimates of the number of adults with cystic fibrosis in different age groups alive at the middle of 1990 were obtained from the United Kingdom Cystic Fibrosis Survey ( J Dodge , personal communication ) . |
| 5 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 6 | • Estimates of the number of journalists at the S-class release varied between 600 to 700 . |
| 7 | Estimates of the number of deaths among men caused each year by alcohol abuse range from 8,000 to 25,000 |
| 8 | The best recent estimates of the variance of perturbations on large scales come from the QDOT redshift survey . |
| 9 | The new grants were attacked by the National Union of Students as another cut in living standards when inflation was running at 7.7 per cent and housing costs , according to estimates from the committee of vice-chancellors and principals , had increased by 8.6 per cent . |