Example sentences of "it [was/were] estimate that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was estimated that a lattice network of sone 80 transmitters would give nationwide coverage , with more than 80% of road traffic covered from only 20 stations . |
| 2 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
| 3 | The change in price has been dramatic — in 1986 it was estimated that it would be impossible to distribute imported whisky free of charge at a cost of less than Y 2,600 a bottle . |
| 4 | It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was estimated that the wages of Britain 's twelve million workers were reduced by about £5 million per week between 1921 and 1925 , although higher estimates have also been made . |
| 6 | Indeed , when Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that only about 400 fascists were present , ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 7 | When Mosley addressed a meeting of 1,500 people at Leeds Town Hall in May 1934 it was estimated that about 400 fascists were present ‘ most of whom had come to Leeds by bus . ’ |
| 8 | It was estimated that the average sum raised per branch member to finance the work of the Eastern District and its branches as a whole for the year had been £1 3s. 4d . |
| 9 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 10 | In 1989 , it was estimated that over 2 million people in the UK still drank water contaminated with lead . |
| 11 | In Sweden in 1988 it was estimated that some 15,000 lakes were acidified , just over 1,800 of which were ‘ seriously ’ acidified ; 100,000 km of rivers and streams were also affected . |
| 12 | It was estimated that no fewer than 30,000 people could congregate at Grand Central without serious crowding . |
| 13 | By 1949 the world 's airlines had carried over twenty million paying passengers , by 1956 the figure had reached over sixty million and it was estimated that 90 per cent of the world 's land surface could be reached by the traveller . |
| 14 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 15 | In 1893 it was estimated that 60 000 organic compounds were known . |
| 16 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |
| 17 | The small scale of its activities was always mentioned : it was estimated that of the 30,000 boys who annually left London elementary schools , not more than 2% came under its influence and that of similar organizations . |
| 18 | The students were given three lectures a day ( Simonds was strongly against any more lecturing than this ) and it was estimated that 50 to 60 horses were available for examination each day . |
| 19 | It was estimated that the Tournament involved expenditure of £40,000 , today 's equivalent being a few millions of pounds , but the cost was probably much greater . |
| 20 | It was estimated that over 5,000 people attended . |
| 21 | It was estimated that closure would result in a net saving of roughly £2,923 per annum . |
| 22 | This body had been set up by Bismarck in 1886 , when it was estimated that if the Ostflucht continued , 3 million Germans would have left their homes in the Prussian east by the start of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | In 1912 it was estimated that since 1886 the Commission had purchased only 60,000 hectares of Polish-owned land and 100,000 hectares of German land in Poznania and West Prussia . |
| 24 | In the first outbreak it was estimated that no more than one per cent of the entire rabbit population survived , and these few were either immune or out of contact with other rabbits . |
| 25 | Despite a run of small harvests , the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming , and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level , the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years . |
| 26 | In July 1982 it was estimated that 300,000 people in the UK suffered from tinnitus which interfered with their ability to lead normal lives . |
| 27 | When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ . |
| 28 | Before the war it was estimated that there were 100,000 monks in Burma , supposedly concentrating on religious duties and doing no menial work in their monasteries but relying on daily gifts of food from the faithful . |
| 29 | Facts found in an evaluation , conducted in 1985 by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research , Bangladesh , revealed five reasons why the National Oral Rehydration Programme ought to be seen as an inappropriate and inefficient method of promoting oral rehydration therapy to the people of Bangladesh : Firstly , it was estimated that , based on numbers of reported cases of diarrhoea , 184 million packets of ORS were needed annually by the Bangladeshi population ( 1985 figure ) . |
| 30 | It was estimated that James made around £100,000 from his criminal activities . |