Example sentences of "estimated to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Uganda , the number of people estimated to be HIV infected is 1.3 million , representing over 1 in 8 of the entire adult population . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The upper critical field was estimated to be about 800,000 times stronger than the earth 's magnetic field , advantageous for applications of the superconductor . |
| 4 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 5 | Also at the United Nations , the President called on the Soviet Union to reduce its stocks immediately to 20 per cent of the current US arsenal , which is unofficial estimated to be 30,000 tons . |
| 6 | About 150 are estimated to be still in jail . |
| 7 | The number of people in ujamaa villages by the late 1970s was officially estimated to be 10 million , although many of these were already living in their existing communities which were simply renamed ujamaa . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | A hundred and thirty thousand London homes destroyed , so the precise number of homeless is now estimated to be around only a quarter of a million . ’ |
| 11 | His assets were estimated to be worth £1.96m , but he had £1.75m of loans . |
| 12 | Accepting this figure , the total loss per year is estimated to be : — |
| 13 | Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) . |
| 14 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 15 | In 1986 , 440 thousand lone parents were estimated to be in paid work including those receiving sb with part-time earnings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Erosion may be very considerable , but , because the area of net measurement of soil movement is large , sedimentation may occur within the same unit and therefore net erosion is estimated to be small ( see also Blandford 1981 ) . |
| 18 | But existing mean farm size is too small for a vigorous , self-sustaining ‘ take-off ( which was estimated to be possible at a minimum farm size of 1.8 ha ) . |
| 19 | And about one British woman in ten is estimated to be suffering from it . |
| 20 | Animal production in the Auvergne is estimated to be worth 4,700 million FF Per annum . |
| 21 | In the North York Moors National Park , bracken is estimated to be encroaching into the moorland at a rate of about 120 hectares a year . |
| 22 | In 1980 , the illiteracy rate was estimated to be 40 per cent of the population over the age of fifteen , with a further 15 per cent semi-literate . |
| 23 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 24 | In rural areas , however , literacy in any language was estimated to be only 20 per cent . |
| 25 | School attendance for the age group seven to eleven years is estimated to be 40 per cent . |
| 26 | Defence and security activities were estimated to be costing more than S 11 million a day . |
| 27 | The repair bill for public-sector accommodation is estimated to be at least £20 billion in 1986 prices ( Association of Metropolitan Authorities , 1986 ) , a year in which total capital spending amounted to about £5.5 billion . |
| 28 | The commentary to the Bill to effect the proposals ( HMSO , 1989 ) states that , in addition to a short-term increase in staff , there will ‘ … be a permanent increase , provisionally estimated to be 3000 , in the number of certain specialist staff at hospital level , including finance , personnel and information technology staff … the new arrangements … will require an estimated 485 extra staff in Regions , FPSAs ( current FPCs ) and health boards . |
| 29 | The total county population was estimated to be 600 pairs , and an increase was evident in some areas during the survey . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |