Example sentences of "it has be estimate that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has been estimated that around one in five of pensioners entitled to these benefits do not actually claim them . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that there are 8,000 ‘ excess deaths ’ for every degree celsius that the winter is colder than average . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that about $280m a month has been flowing out of Hong Kong into the city of Vancouver this year . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 5 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that around 70 consortia in all are arranging finance to participate in the auction for major independent television franchises , with the most attractive regions such as Thames , LWT , Granada , Central , TVS and Anglia likely to draw the toughest competition . |
| 7 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 8 | Molecule for molecule , they are 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and it has been estimated that if production is not checked they will rival carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas in the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | It has been estimated that , in its early days , only about one third of Royal Society Fellows were scientists . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that Moody and Sankey were heard by upwards of one-and-a-half million Londoners in 1875 . |
| 11 | ( 5 ) It has been estimated that more than 60 million people left the rural areas of all European countries-during the 30 years from 1945 . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that some 85 per cent of these are of Augustan date . |
| 13 | It has been estimated that there are 24 000 cases of gonorrhoea each day in South America , that is just under half the total yearly figures for England . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 15 | It has been estimated that up to 300 million tonnes of oil a year could be saved in the USSR by cutting waste , substituting gas for oil in industrial complexes and making more use of the vast coal reserves , but whether this will be achieved to any significant extent outside the essentially capitalist ethos where cost saving is an easily learned lesson , is doubtful . |
| 16 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that the capital cost of a 1,000 MW installation on the UK coast could be comparable with the cost of a conventional power station of the same capacity but this does not take into account the amount of R & D necessary both to develop a 2MW , 100-metre diameter aerogenerator and to design the kind of structures and transmission systems to withstand the rigours of the ocean . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that , just to prevent any further warming of the Earth 's atmosphere , we need to reduce carbon dioxide production — by 50% according to Government estimates and by 80% according to environmental organisations . |
| 19 | It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals . |
| 20 | It has been estimated that OPEC supplied approximately 50 per cent of the market 's funds in the 1970s . |
| 21 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 22 | A positive correlation has indeed been reported between the number of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs issued by general practitioners in England and Wales and the rate of deliberate self-poisoning , and it has been estimated that a reduction of 1000 psychotropic prescriptions would be associated with 3.8 fewer admissions as a result of deliberate self-poisoning ( Forster and Frost 1985 ) . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that , of the thousand people bitten by rattlesnakes annually in the United States only about thirty die . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that these subsistence farmers are globally responsible for half of all rainforest destruction , as they march deeper and deeper into virgin forest . |
| 26 | And it has been estimated that in Tanzania one elephant family in three are orphans . |
| 27 | It has been estimated that the average person in Europe and North America obtains 70 per cent of daily nitrate intake from vegetables and 21 per cent from drinking water . |
| 28 | It has been estimated that for every hour of brisk walking , you can add one extra hour to the length of your life . |
| 29 | Much footway damage is natural deterioration of course , but it has been estimated that overriding by vehicles is implicated in over half of the cases where planned maintenance work is carried out . |
| 30 | It has been estimated that about three per cent of all calls in busy TMAs result in conflicting transmissions . |