Example sentences of "were estimated to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His assets were estimated to be worth £1.96m , but he had £1.75m of loans . |
| 4 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 5 | In 1986 , 440 thousand lone parents were estimated to be in paid work including those receiving sb with part-time earnings . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 8 | Defence and security activities were estimated to be costing more than S 11 million a day . |
| 9 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Out of some 50,000,000 deaths worldwide in 1990 46,500,000 were estimated to be directly associated with disease . |
| 21 | In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments , for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Antral crypts were estimated to be longer than gastric body crypts . |