Example sentences of "be estimated to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 32 | Defence and security activities were estimated to be costing more than S 11 million a day . |
| 33 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 34 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 35 | For example , only 10 per cent of vandalism and 12 per cent of theft from the person were estimated to be reported , while for burglary , the estimated percentage was 41 per cent and for motor vehicle theft 86 per cent ( Mayhew et al . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 38 | On Nov. 22 government spokesperson Yuan Mu said that China 's foreign debt stood at $44,000 million , and overall repayments for 1990 were estimated to be within the target $7,000-$8,000 million . |
| 39 | By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports . |
| 40 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |
| 41 | On the outbreak of war the Iraqi army , including recalled reservists , numbered some 955,000 , of whom 620,000 were estimated to be committed to the Kuwaiti theatre of operations ( however , post-war evaluation called seriously into question initial Western intelligence estimates and it was suggested that the figure was nearer 300,000 ) . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Around 100,000 asylum seekers and refugees were estimated to be living in Switzerland at the end of 1990 , over half of them being people whose applications had not yet been processed . |
| 44 | Out of some 50,000,000 deaths worldwide in 1990 46,500,000 were estimated to be directly associated with disease . |
| 45 | In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments , for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible . |
| 46 | On Aug. 15 a UN flight left Nairobi , carrying high-protein biscuits to Baidoa , where some 500-700 people were estimated to be dying daily . |
| 47 | Antral crypts were estimated to be longer than gastric body crypts . |
| 48 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 49 | Accepting this figure , the total loss per year is estimated to be : — |
| 50 | Erosion may be very considerable , but , because the area of net measurement of soil movement is large , sedimentation may occur within the same unit and therefore net erosion is estimated to be small ( see also Blandford 1981 ) . |
| 51 | And about one British woman in ten is estimated to be suffering from it . |
| 52 | Animal production in the Auvergne is estimated to be worth 4,700 million FF Per annum . |
| 53 | In the North York Moors National Park , bracken is estimated to be encroaching into the moorland at a rate of about 120 hectares a year . |
| 54 | School attendance for the age group seven to eleven years is estimated to be 40 per cent . |
| 55 | The repair bill for public-sector accommodation is estimated to be at least £20 billion in 1986 prices ( Association of Metropolitan Authorities , 1986 ) , a year in which total capital spending amounted to about £5.5 billion . |
| 56 | Britain 's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads . |
| 57 | The amount of high level radioactive waste kept at Sellafield Reprocessing plant is estimated to be 1200 meters cubed and the figure is expected to double by the end of the century . |
| 58 | The worldwide yearly sulphur output is estimated to be between 50 and 75 million tonnes and is concentrated in the industrial regions . |
| 59 | The market is estimated to be worth £500m . |
| 60 | Without a national society to maintain such a link it is doubtful if amateur radio could survive in today 's cut-throat world of radio communication where a single frequency in commercial terms is estimated to be worth millions of pounds . |