Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] estimated that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Unemployment remained high , and it was estimated that at any one time at least a million men were without work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These treatments led to cation losses of 100–240 kg per ha per annum calcium and 30–80 of magnesium , for example , but it was estimated that such would be restored through rainfall input over 10–20 years of fallow ; the 1300 1400kg of nitrogen appears to be more easily replaced as fixation rates of 100–150 kg per ha per annum were recorded . |
| 15 | But it was estimated that the forces at Verdun would require at least 2,000 tons a day , plus another 1OO for every additional division brought up . |