Example sentences of "estimated to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | World reserves of coal of various types are estimated to be around nine hundred billion ( 9 x 10 11 ) tonnes . |
| 32 | The new missiles will be much more effective than their predecessors against the latest Russian tanks , and worldwide sales are estimated to be worth thousands of millions of pounds . |
| 33 | Britain 's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | The worldwide yearly sulphur output is estimated to be between 50 and 75 million tonnes and is concentrated in the industrial regions . |
| 36 | The global demand is now estimated to be over 1000 million tonnes . |
| 37 | The market is estimated to be worth £500m . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 40 | The amount of energy associated with this ( usually unobserved ) background is conservatively estimated to be on the order of nuclear energy densities or greater . |
| 41 | This potential demand is estimated to be of the order of 600,000 , and if it becomes clear that the housing market has bottomed out and house prices are rising once more , it could provide significant support to the housing market . |
| 42 | The spread is estimated to be , say , 160 basis points above the gilt but will not be known for certain until issue day . |
| 43 | In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels . |
| 44 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 45 | The extension of this power in 1983 to cover elderly people in residential care and nursing homes led to the growth in the number of private home places , which more than doubled from 1979–84 , and was estimated to be continuing to rise ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) . |
| 46 | Companies are estimated to be paying out £6 million a day in household and commercial claims — £1.30 for each £1 of premiums they collect . |
| 47 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 48 | The next step was to turn the feasibility study into a detailed business plan which would be presented in a share prospectus aimed at attracting the target £6.5 million now estimated to be needed to launch a paper selling between 800,000 and 1.1 million copies . |
| 49 | As much as £750,000 extra in investment from Manchester and other northern councils was estimated to be available if the paper moved . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 ) . |
| 52 | 5 million children in lone-parent households but this is only a single snapshot count and the number of children currently estimated to be in step-families ( between 1 and 1 . |
| 53 | Real defence spending , including costs tucked away elsewhere in the budget , is estimated to be two or three times higher . |
| 54 | A decrease in cytoplasmic Ca 2+ levels ( estimated to be below 100nM ) will result because of the decreased influx of Ca 2+ through the channel . |
| 55 | The energy released by going to allowed Ramachandran angles was estimated to be 4kcalmol -1 using the program BIOGRAF ( BioDesign , Pasadena ) . |
| 56 | 88Open now has over 100 members , and is estimated to be fourth in the software league for ‘ open ’ architectures with around 1,000 packages , behind IBM ( Rios ) and Sun Sparc with 4,000 or so each , and MIPS with 1,800 . |
| 57 | The benefit of all this is estimated to be a saving on annual costs of about $4,000m beginning in 1993 — but all the cost-cutting that the company already has under its belt has done no more than enable it to stand still , which is why several analysts question whether even the latest cuts will prove sufficient . |
| 58 | It 's estimated to be 30% of the job . |
| 59 | The business is estimated to be doing about $200m a year , and a key attraction for the Cupertino company is that Texas sells almost exclusively through resellers , and Hewlett-Packard sees big potential in mobilising that army to take on board its own computer products as well . |
| 60 | The basalt was previously estimated to be 2 km thick but the borehole intersected mineralised Dalradian rocks at a depth of 72 m . |