Sentence examples for ago estimated from inspiring English sources

A Skills for Life survey published a couple of years ago estimated that there are some 5.2 million adults in the UK with poor literacy skills.

North Korea has never tested a nuclear weapon, though the C.I.A. long ago estimated that it manufactured two crude devices in the late 1980's or early 1990's.

A University of Hawaii study a couple of years ago estimated that 20 million pounds of Kona coffee are sold annually, although only about 2 million pounds of Kona beans are produced.

While the government does not disclose how many debtors have been jailed, a legislative body several years ago estimated that 10,000 of them were in the courts or prison.

Exact figures are hard to come by, but a study several years ago estimated the administrative cost at 3.5% of all tax collected, a number easily reaching billions.

The sex chromosomes of papaya evolved about 2 3 million years ago estimated by time divergence analysis of four pairs of homologous X-Yh genes [ 14].

Nancy DeRosa, one of the region's six original cave divers who first mapped the cenotes decades ago, estimates that only 12% of the towns in the state of Quintana Roo have sewage systems and tells horror stories of watching plumes of untreated human waste pouring into the cenotes.  .

Indeed, a few years ago, estimates of its debt ranged from tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Horizontal bars mark the lower and upper time boundaries of the indicated mean age (Million years ago) estimates of the nodes.

The lands Down Under are unique in having developed in physical isolation from other major land masses after splitting from the supercontinent of Gondwana tens of millions of years ago (estimates of just how long ago vary).

A divergence time estimate of 1.1 million years ago (95% confidence interval: 0.4 - 2.4 million years ago) was estimated for the Moroccan population of P. herdmani and its temperate southern African sister lineage.