Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] estimate that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that the capital cost of a 1,000 MW installation on the UK coast could be comparable with the cost of a conventional power station of the same capacity but this does not take into account the amount of R & D necessary both to develop a 2MW , 100-metre diameter aerogenerator and to design the kind of structures and transmission systems to withstand the rigours of the ocean . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that the average person in Europe and North America obtains 70 per cent of daily nitrate intake from vegetables and 21 per cent from drinking water . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that the Cheju rebellion involved 30,000 deaths , approximately 10 per cent of the population . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the total fees paid to third parties in the take-over process in the UK in 1985 came to £500 million , about 7 per cent of the value of the transactions , and the figure will be much higher in the case of contested bids . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that the real cost of an average package holiday was 16 per cent less in 1987 than 1980 , and this value for money is likely to keep the large groups well placed at the top of the market share listings . |
| 6 | Indeed it has been estimated that the presence of hedgerows reduces the output of cereals farms by up to 15 per cent . |
| 7 | It has been estimated that the cratering rate today ( see section 8.1 ) is about 3 times what it was 850 Ma ago , and Figure 6.9 is brought up to today on this basis . |
| 8 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 9 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 11 | It has been estimated that the amount of fossil fuels that will be consumed between AD 2000 and AD 2050 will be over three times the amount consumed between AD 1 and AD 2000 . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that the majority of the great London families survived there for no more than three generations in the male line , and it was certainly rare for men to prefer city life to that of the country ( 104 , p.205 ) . |
| 13 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 14 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
| 15 | It has been estimated that the general cost of correcting errors including scrap and rework can be as high as 20 per cent of turnover in manufacturing industry . |
| 16 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 17 | And then in addition to that if you were a poor peasant who had to hire land from somebody else , you would of course pay rent and in the nineteen thirties it 's been estimated that the average rent paid by a poor peasant farming somebody else 's land was forty five percent of the harvest . |