Sentence examples for estimated to contract from inspiring English sources

More than 1,000 people, mainly babies and children, are estimated to contract meningitis B in the UK each year.

The declining Japanese population, which is estimated to contract from 127.8 million in 2005 down to 119.3 million by 2015 and then to 109.7 million by 2036, will also accelerate the rate of increase in the number of physicians per population.

France is expected to have notched up 0.2% growth while Italy is estimated to have contracted slightly again.

In Russia alone, at least 75,000 people are estimated to have contracted H.I.V. in 2001, mostly through shared needles.

Travellers' diarrhoea (TD) has been estimated to be contracted by 80 million individuals every year [ 1], yet the causative agents often remain poorly characterized.

Ms. Walters's current contract, estimated to be worth $7 million to $8 million a year, has more than a year left to run.

The Department of Homeland Security hopes to award a contract estimated to be worth at least $525 million by September and to break ground on the laboratory next summer.

Jiangsu Shagang, Maanshan Iron and Steel, Tanshan Iron and Steel and Wuhan Iron and Steel agreed in March to buy 12 million metric tons of iron ore from BHP Billiton for the next 25 years, a contract estimated to be worth $9 billion.

The two companies beat out Pratt & Whitney, part of the United Technologies Corporation, for a contract estimated to be worth as much as $40 billion over 25 years.

The three-year contract, estimated to be worth more than $400 million, was awarded by the Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Company, an international group operated by an Exxon Mobil unit.

He knew that with the Red Bulls acquiring other name players, he was not likely to have his contract, estimated to be close to $2 million this season, renewed.