Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] estimated [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , with unemployment set to reach two million by Christmas , they are no longer welcome and it 's estimated that over 60 per cent are unemployed . |
| 2 | Over one and a half million pensioners ( 15% ) , claimed the means tested top up Income Support in 1989–90 , and it is estimated that a further 0.9 million were eligible , but did not claim . |
| 3 | One in four products from the chemist will contain chemical compounds derived from rainforest plants , and it is estimated that to date only one per cent of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use . |
| 4 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 5 | ‘ Largemouth ’ is now almost extinct in the lake , and it is estimated that probably 50% of other species are also now extinct due to the introduction of the predatory Nile Perch as a food fish some 40 years ago . |
| 6 | Between the surrender and December 1948 the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce retail price index rose by 4000 per cent and it is estimated that black market prices increased at double this rate . |
| 7 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 8 | Since then , the number of bail information schemes has expanded considerably , and it is estimated that there will be more than 100 in operation by April 1992 ( NACRO , 1990a ) . |
| 9 | In the UK alone , over £40 million per year is spent on tranquillizers , and it is estimated that at least 3 million people are addicted to them Some drugs affect appetite and also increase the need for vitamins and minerals . |
| 10 | On the other hand , in many instances the repossession order is not carried out and it is estimated that only 60 per cent of orders eventually result in repossession . |
| 11 | Therefore , he is likely to nominate those whose views seem most in line with his own , although there is no way a president can guarantee the direction of a justice 's decision and it is estimated that the President 's choices have backfired in a quarter of appointments . |
| 12 | The hard disk is now down to 50% , and it is estimated that all non-Accounts files will be off the system by the end of June . |
| 13 | And it is estimated that currently 87% of the 1,672,000 tonnes of pulp Britain imports each year has been chlorine-bleached . |
| 14 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 15 | Sixty per cent of the ships carry oil or oil derivatives , natural gas , chemicals or nuclear waste and it is estimated that an additional 75 million tonnes of oil would pass through the Bosphorus each year " the equivalent of four supertankers a day " if oil from Azerbaijan 's oil fields was pumped to a Black Sea port for onward shipment . |
| 16 | The business gift sector is characterised by seasonal demand , and it is estimated that 80 per cent of this business is conducted in the last two months of every year . |
| 17 | Badger-baiting is at an all-time high in East and North Yorkshire and it is estimated that each year in Great Britain as many as 9,000 badgers meet a premature death . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 22 | The whole of Radnor , most of Brecknock and much of Montgomery lacked this facility , and it was estimated that 14.5 per cent of the population of rural Wales was without effective public transport to work . |
| 23 | More than 200,000 cases of AIDS had been officially reported to WHO by more than 150 countries by the end of 1989 , and it was estimated that between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 people were HIV-positive . |
| 24 | The fall in output had affected employment , especially in urban areas , and it was estimated that unemployment stood at 4 per cent in 1989 , double the previous year 's figure . |
| 25 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 26 | By late March only seven of a reported 571 oil well fires had been capped and it was estimated that it might take a further three years to extinguish all the fires . |
| 27 | Only 6 per cent of education spending came from the federal budget and it was estimated that the cost of Bush 's proposals would at federal level absorb $820 million of the federal budget of $27,100 million for the fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1 . |
| 28 | The Nikkei average index , the main measure of performance in Tokyo , fell by 40 per cent during the year , or approximately US$1,500,000 million , and it was estimated that even dollar-denominated investments there would have lost some 35.4 per cent of their value . |
| 29 | In 1881 , the leader of the Blue Ribbon Mission came to town and it was estimated that a quarter of the 32,000 population were ‘ blue-ribboners ’ , or had taken the pledge . |
| 30 | At its peak , in June , when 12,000 vehicles were employed , one passed along it every fourteen seconds , and it was estimated that the mileage accrued each week along its short fifty miles added up to twenty-five times the earth 's circumference . |