Example sentences of "be estimated to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The real interest rate would be estimated to be 5 per cent per annum .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 The general effect of these four differences between health and education in relation to economic growth is that it has proved far more difficult and controversial to measure the impact of health on economic growth and where it has been attempted the effects have been estimated to be lower than those resulting from education .
5 The collective dose to the total population ( about 2 million ) within an 80 kilometre radius of the Three Mile Island plant has been estimated to be 3300 person rem ( for the period from 28 March to 7 April ) with an average dose to individuals of 1.5 mrem .
6 On April 13 the then Oil Minister , Rashid al Amiri , announced that the time needed to extinguish oil fires started by Iraq had recently been estimated to be seven months rather than 24 months [ see also p. 38119 ] .
7 Ultimately biliary cirrhosis results and the median survival has been estimated to be 12 years .
8 About 150 are estimated to be still in jail .
9 Spinner dolphins are frequently taken in set-nets around Sri Lanka , where about 17,000 are estimated to be incidentally caught each year .
10 Proven natural gas reserves ( of which 40 per cent are in the USSR ) are estimated to be about 82 x 10 12 cubic metres ( equivalent in energy to about 740 x 10 9 tonnes of oil ) .
11 World reserves of coal of various types are estimated to be around nine hundred billion ( 9 x 10 11 ) tonnes .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Losses in connection with the Los Angeles riots in April are estimated to be around [ 5m , net of reinsurance .
16 In the UK , the assets in pension schemes are estimated to be over £300 billion .
17 However total AIDS cases are estimated to be between 100,000 and 150,000 .
18 Faraday 's manufacturing overheads are estimated to be £12,000 per month .
19 Selling and Distribution expenses are estimated to be £50,400 a year and are incurred evenly over the year .
20 Discovered in 1855 , there are estimated to be only 1,000 specimens left in the wild .
21 There are estimated to be about 6,000 Shar Peis in the world now .
22 On the livestock scene , total cattle numbers are estimated to be 1pc lower .
23 It comes after a national survey revealed one in four 15 year olds smokes regularly and that sales of cigarettes to children are estimated to be worth around £70m a year .
24 The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually .
25 Although around one million people were estimated to be caring for at least 35 hours a week , only 109,000 received ICA in December 1989 .
26 In the mid 1960s annual world catches of beluga were estimated to be around 5000 — 6000 , and 20 years ago in the USSR alone , catches were 3000–4000 .
27 His assets were estimated to be worth £1.96m , but he had £1.75m of loans .
28 In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children .
29 In 1986 , 440 thousand lone parents were estimated to be in paid work including those receiving sb with part-time earnings .
30 These costs are partly offset by revenues from the sale of the signal to other users , which were estimated to be £235,000 during the experiment .
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