How To Use Estimate In A Sentence

You do an estimate, and then it might cost a little bit more when you actually do the job.
They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at ￡1 million.
You estimate, I will offer your estimated value to the auction committee.
One Mercedes engineer estimated that, worldwide, up to 50,000 vehicles may have to be repaired, which is a blow for a company which prides itself on reliability and quality. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3

Her own valuers had estimated that the property was worth £150,000 on the basis of agricultural use of the surrounding land, and virtually nothing on the basis of mining and/or landfill operations.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
The amount of strain that measuring the heights of all admitted children puts on the medical and nursing staff should not be underestimated.
The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
Eggs were labeled with a permanent marker, candled to estimate the stage of development, weighed to the nearest 0.5 g using a spring scale, and measured (length and width) to the nearest 0.1 mm with calipers.
Reliable statewide estimates of the specific offense distribution of California's probationers are not available.
The principal range in German New Guinea is the Bismarck Mountains (variously estimated between 14,000 and 16,000 feet, in height). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
From the combined results Thomas's group estimated an average particle size of 100 for the copper metal aggregates.
However even currently available estimates already show encouraging results in the case 2 scenario described above.
It is estimated that up to 1,200 people have land on the road's route, which covers an area of around 800 acres.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
Some researchers have estimated that obesity causes about 300,000 deaths in the U.S. annually.
Phyllotaxis, which need not be entered into fully here; but in order the better to estimate the teratological changes which take place, it may be well to allude to the following circumstances relating to the alternation of parts. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The arrowheads demarcate the two antibody positive bands with estimated M r of 43 and 45K.
Property and equipment are stated at cost at the date of acquisition or estimated fair value at the date of donation.
Temperatures inside the burning building are estimated to have reached 600 degrees centigrade.
Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
A recent report estimates there were 60 percent fewer wintering mule deer on part of the anticline in 2009 compared with 2001, and 28 percent fewer mule deer in 2009 compared with 2005. Deer Population Plummets Amidst Natural Gas Drilling
Clinical assessments were estimated to take on average 9.8 minutes for a regular review and 13.4 minutes for an annual review.
A force that believes it is invulnerable might dismiss or underestimate an opponent's strength, will or commitment.
Therefore it's impossible to estimate the actual value of the deal.
It criticises the main contractor for seriously erring in its original estimates.
She estimated that she's counselled about 400 people, almost all of them women, since founding the organisation.
The difficulties that arise from the different demands made by the grammatical systems of different languages in translation should not be underestimated.
This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. What's the carbon footprint of ... a volcano?
Observers estimated the cost to farm producers and agribusiness to be over $100 million.
The differences are small, varying between 32,000 jobs a year being the lowest estimate, to 38,000 being the highest estimate.
'' What I really resent is that people underestimated me, '' she said. Archive 2007-07-01
The total billings as of termination were about $75,000, already $10,000 over the ‘estimate’.
With the cost of floor coverings over concrete subfloors now estimated at more than a billion dollars a year in the United States, far greater attention must be given to the issue of moisture within and below concrete slabs on grade.
Despite the inherent inexactness of reproduction cost estimates, he insisted that their economic importance was such that they could not be ignored when they markedly differed from actual cost figures.
Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Using Companies House and other data, and cross-checking with industry sources, we estimated how each firm's profits were divided among its partners.
Another source of energy that is needed in medium - and large-scale plants is diesel fuel required for operating forklifts which is estimated at one litre per ton of final product. Chapter 10
Otherwise, the sketch is exactly accurate, and is here presented as the unprejudiced description and estimate of a foreign gentleman, who had no inducement, such as might be attributed to a Southern writer, to overcolor his portrait. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
Nest initiation dates were estimated by candling incubating nests and assuming an incubation period of 24 to 26 days for hatching nests.
This was estimated by taking the tangent of each point of the curve.
Contaminant fluxes associated with the process of frazil ice formation in the Kara sea are much smaller than worst-case estimates.
For the contractor, the bid estimate is usually regarded as the budget estimate, which will be used for control purposes as well as for planning construction financing.
We estimate the cost to be five thousand dollars.
The Bonded Liberation Front estimates that there are 25m bonded children in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
For more than just a ballpark estimate of your green infrastructure's value, you need high-resolution images.
The company has Centre for Insurance and Risk Management tripled its staff in the past 12 months, hiring (CIRM), estimates that India's OTC weather experts in agronomy and agricultural mete - derivatives market is worth around $1 billion. orology to meet growing demand. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Their estimate is in the right ball park.
Despite Cairn's mixed results, the Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland remain enticing for oil companies, where experts estimate that 4. 1bn barrels of untapped crude lies. Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland
Before the City outsourced its fleet services, there was an estimated 40 percent availability of vehicles.
Population is extrapolated using the revised UN estimates, which give a figure of 1, 272.2 million;
Ministers underestimated the magnitude of the task confronting them.
Lamentations" (2007) is estimated at £6,000-£8,000. An Emerging Art Market: Turkish Contemporary
China has invested an estimated $6 billion, though some suspect that, due to corruption, the actual sum of money flowing to Turkmen and Uzbek businessmen may be considerably higher.
Rising waters would uproot prosperous farmers from the fertile riverbanks, forcing an estimated 100,000 people to move to higher ground where they could no longer plant corn and wheat.
Except as noted below, data on all cause and cause specific child and infant mortality and of age distribution of child and infant mortality were regional estimates or other aggregates.
More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
The data files are then offline processed through the software to estimate the attitude parameters.
The unclaimed jewellery was part of the estimated ￡60m haul taken from the Knightsbridge Security deposit box robbery in 1987.
We estimated the cost at ￡50 000.
Here we use the EM algorithm to obtain the maximum likelihood estimate of multinomial random variables with probabilities. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Republicans estimate this change would send monthly bills up by about $ 10 by 2002.
Construction work on the barriers began in early 2003 and the estimated completion date is 2011.
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No estimates of stock size or mortality are available for tautog in North Carolina.
Witches, goblins, ghosts, ghouls and some gothic mums and dads were among an estimated 9,000 crowd that turned out for what is believed to be the country's largest Halloween party.
If we could take a look now at those live pictures of St. Peter's Square, to an estimated 70,000 people have gathered to maintain a vigil and to pray for the pope.
As estimated by the staff of the Joint Force, around two-thirds of losses were inflicted by snipers operating within such parties, who would fire from embrasures in basement walls, top-story windows and roofs.
The estimated annual number of births affected with a neural tube defect is about 400,000 world wide.
The full-court configuration has a 4,850 sq.ft. playing surface covered by metal roof and guttered to collect an estimated 90,000 liters of water per year. Cameron Sinclair: House of Rain: Kenya's First Net-Positive Sports Facility (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
If the inducing angle is overestimated, the test line should be seen as parallel when it is actually rotated away from the nearby arm of the angle
The Lusitu community police post project, estimated to cost a total of US $110,000 will have an office block, two semi-detached houses, a communication must, a soakaway and a septic tank.
I think 15,000 will turn out to be a very low estimate.
I can give you a rough estimate of the amount of wood you will need.
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
Ultimately biliary cirrhosis results and the median survival has been estimated to be 12 years.
Meanwhile, one group of patients continues to worry clinicians and researchers: adults with anorexia, estimated to make up about 35 percent of anorexic patients.
Depreciation of furniture and equipment is computed on the straight-line basis over estimated useful lives of five to ten years.
The firm underestimated the size of the market for their new product.
Officials admit that the figures are an underestimate, as they are based on incident reports from soldiers with incomplete information.
Reliable estimates of the prevalence of this condition are difficult to obtain because of the diversity of identifiable causes.
A total of eight Orkney chairs featured in the sale catalogue, and exceeded their estimates, according to Bonham organisers.
A test of the hypothesis that ß 1 = 1 can be constructed from the orthogonal regression estimate and standard error for 1.
At this stage, I couldn't even begin to give you an estimate... I would require help from experts. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Since individual univalents or bivalents in some nuclei may lie too close to each other to be resolved unambiguously, this method underestimates the frequency of achiasmate chromosomes.
Hynix's debt is estimated to reach 9 trillion South Korean won ( 7.5 billion US dollars ).
Byng (who incidentally is the brother of Georgia Byng, author of the Molly Moon books for children) estimates the series will be completed in 2038! A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong: Book summary
Their estimate is in the right ball park.
Stubborn had survived one of the worst attacks of the war, despite the loss of her aft hydroplanes and rudder, and had carried out the deepest-ever dive at the time, to an estimated 165m!
Second, in view of the compliance costs estimated at ￡20,000, the notice was unreasonable.
A comparison of estimates of dip separation based on onshore geology and seismic data is presented later in the paper.
The contract was found to be a cost-plus contract with a $65,000 ‘estimate’ and a fixed contractor's fee of $5,000.
Cost estimates are notoriously uncertain in this business.
The intercept of the extrapolated regression line and x-axis was taken to be an estimate of the presentation time.
It is estimated that the 150 men could produce 10,000 tons of coal a week.
With so many variables, the exact cost is difficult to estimate.
While the figures cannot be confirmed, they square with many other estimates circulating in recent years.
I estimate his age at thirty - five.
The Business Software Alliance has estimated that up to 80 per cent of software sold on auction sites may be illegal.
Survival curves were plotted using the product limit estimates.
One lawmaker estimated actual losses at $ 100 million.
The peak in the center of this surface represented the large estimate of genetic variance in the E3 environment.
It is estimated that processing an electronic transaction costs six times less than the cost of processing a check.
The official figures are a gross underestimate of the true number.
But only if it isn't found grossly negligent for the gulf oil spill, which could double posttax oil-spill-related costs from the $28 billion estimate. BP's Long Road Back
The annual population estimates constitute the principal source of official statistics on sub-national populations.
The value of the work undertaken by informal carers is difficult to estimate with precision.
I've had one waterproofer come out for an estimate, which I don't have yet but expect to be substantial (he wants to dig down to the foundation, apply a rubber/polymer layer to the wall, then recover the wall, regrade, and put in a drain).
It is estimated that by the first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders, the majority of which have no known cause.
Robust estimates of uncertainty in field data can be carried forward to become explicit in published 3D models.
He was estimated to have won £100,000 in his career but his love of a flutter on greyhounds bankrupted him.
These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
The department had sought suggestions from the teacher-training colleges for a modular course to enable the estimated 280 primary teachers without qualifications to qualify properly.
If, on account of direct or indirect inflation the actual unit costs should differ very materially from the estimated unit costs, it is highly probable that a corresponding variation would occur in the total cost of the project. Hydro and the St. Lawrence
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He estimated its half-life to be in the tens of thousands of years. FLOATING CITY
I estimate that the comparable disparities in Australia are less marked but still not inconsiderable.
We underestimated how long it would take to get there.
The earthquake caused damage to property estimated at $6 million.
The contingency is 415 million, and there is another 400 million contingency tolling, please look at page two of the estimate, the tunnel boring estimated cost is $350 million dollars. Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
During this time Kissinger needlessly prolonged U.S. war-making in which 20,853 Americans were killed and an officially U. S.-estimated 7,860,013 Indochinese were murdered, maimed or made homeless. Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History
He estimated client calls to the firm have increased "tenfold" in the last three to six months. Labor Fears Spawn Boom In Workplace Legal Advice
In execution phase, modifications and site instructions should be effectively controlled, budgetary estimate should be strictly reviewe...
To believe that its catalog is merely a backward extension of Farrar's solo career is to sorely underestimate the essentialness of the three other musicians who made up the band.
The vote comes as the new National Intelligence estimate shows Iraq is facing what it calls daunting challenges over the next year and a half. CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2007
Geographynote: a flat, riverless island renowned for its white sand beaches; its tropical climate is moderated by constant trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean; the temperature is almost constant at about 27 degrees Celsius (81 degrees Fahrenheit) PeoplePopulation: 100,018 note: estimate based on a revision of the base population, fertility, and mortality numbers, as well as a revision of 1985-1999 migration estimates from outmigration to inmigration, which is assumed to continue into the future; the new results are consistent with the 2000 census (July 2007 est.) Aruba
All estimates are obtained using four driving values and bridge sampling.
The resulting estimates will then be used to calculate the changes in welfare resulting from some simple price reduction scenarios of 1992.
You might have a sleek shirt, but a nice set of cufflinks can make you look like a real powerhouse - never underestimate their appeal.
Four years ago the Inland Revenue had a look at this automatic deduction of tax and estimated that over the past few years it had taken £300 million from four million people who should have paid no tax at all.
August 6th, 2008 at 6: 19 am i’m so interested to know about antilia tower … can i know the estimate cost antilia tower and material constuction used …. can reply me .. slumdweller Says: Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai | Inhabitat
We can estimate this deviation by measuring the same step height with different offsets, or different average positions, of the scanner relative to the surface.
As a result, a congressional research arm estimates, the "net cost [to the government] is likely to be substantially less than $700 billion.
The areal outline and estimated mass of the sylvinite beds were based on examination of drill hole data and review of interpreted vintage seismic maps.
They support the largest population of shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) in Africa with an estimated population of roughly 5,000. Saharan flooded grasslands
Estimated price is somewhere between 200-250 thousand greenbacks.
VAR is difficult to calculate internally (by company management) and very difficult to estimate externally (by investors). Mortgage Depreciation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
McKinnon estimated the lateral movement of the bridge to be between four and six inches.
Since the market price is the best estimate of the future price, it's hard to see how either the company or the secretary can systematically misjudge the value of the stock high or low. Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I think there is a real risk that the Administration underestimates the difficulties.
The Selous has huge herds of sable antelope and estimated 10,000 of them although they are rare in the tourist parts of this huge reserve.
Using these data, the team estimated "conditioned dental diversity", eliminating cases where people had all their teeth "present and healthy" or people who were "edentulous THE MEDICAL NEWS
Overall they estimate that carers save the State at least E2 billion gross each year.
As a rough estimate, the average number of records required per title is 5.
We can estimate that total market demand for electrical goods will rise by 8%.
The teeming city of Jakarta produces an estimated 23,400 cubic meters of garbage per day.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that 1, 000 teens die annually by breathing fumes from easily accessible products.
Out of this water, estimated to be about 70,000 cusecs, only 22,000 cusecs could reach Harike headworks late last night because the rest was soaked by the completely dry river bed.
Organisers estimated more than 130,000 people visited Peel Park to hear dozens of free shows and sample the renowned mela food, ranging from pakoras and chana to chocolate crêpes and candyfloss.
The least Square estimates are not reliable when there exists multicollinearity in adjustment model.
According to an estimate by a leading newspaper, she earns ￡40 million a year.
Eickman said movie-making provides far-reaching financial benefits for the city, adding an estimated $ 50 million to the economy in 1994.
The Lotus Fund, founded four years ago, counts a number of Republicans among its estimated 200 members.
The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic.
A preliminary estimate suggests a likely ceiling of between 120 and 130 machines.
General Rashood's original estimate of the Russian position had been accurate to a degree. BARRACUDA 945
In particular, the way tourism data is collected almost certainly underestimates two important elements of sports tourism, as follows.
His personal wealth is estimated at around $100 million.
An estimated 200 million people will watch on television as more than 10, 000 athletes compete in 271 events.
The assumptions that our estimates of the proportion of eyries associated with geese and the proportion of geese that nested with falcons are unbiased can be confirmed only by data collected from other areas.
In Britain the estimate is 9 billion kilos of food is wasted after catered meals and all of it is dumped.
Some executives estimate that Citigroup could dispose of as much as $12 billion in "noncritical" assets. Bhutto Assassination
Therefore, the degree to which official statistics underestimate the actual level of crime depends on the particular category of crime.
Then we detect and estimate the carrier frequency of negative SNR DS-SS Signal have done. Theoretic analysis and simulation prove the validity of the arithmetic.
The Mexican force has been estimated at from 2, 400 to over 5, 000, the Alamo's defenders numbered only about 185, and Santa Anna declared he would give no quarter.
Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers. FOXNews.com
Delaunay's bright, geometric gouache, watercolor and black crayon "Rythme couleur, Paris" (1966) is estimated at £20,000-£30,000; carrying the same estimate will be Otto Freundlich's cheerful pastel "Cosmic Rainbow" (1922). Tips to Starting a Collection
Some of the author's analysis is rather basic but there are also some important insights, although the author on occasion underestimates their significance.
The government last week put a crackdown on hospital cleanliness at the centre of its fight against the superbug MRSA, which kills an estimated 5,000 in-patients every year in the UK.
He caused an estimate to be taken of the sum required for his own expenditure, and that of those in his personal service; and being told that six hundred scudi would be sufficient, (scudo was at that time the name of a golden coin which, retaining the same weight and value, was afterwards called a zecchino,) 1 he gave orders that this sum should annually be set apart out of his patrimonial estate, for the expenses of the table. Chapter XXII
Industry research firm Watson Wyatt estimates Australian companies face a combined shortfall of as much as A$25 billion in these defined-benefit pension plans, known as superannuation in Australia. Australian Firms to Pay Scarce Cash for Pensions
Experts say the immigrants may have been here all along, but earlier estimates may have been miscalculated.
The earthquake registered a magnitude of 6.8, according to early estimates.
There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.
No one can underestimate the difficulties implicit in achieving a negotiated settlement.
I need the actual figures, not an estimate.
The situation is at the stage where the total damage cannot be estimated, because the water has not cleared, as yet, and unfortunately today they are expecting more rain.
In this study, 5-year moving averages are used to estimate the mean value of each commodity.
Polar bears have successfully occupied virtually all available sea ice habitats throughout the circumpolar Arctic and the global population was last estimated at 21,500-25,000 individuals.
We estimate demand in the UK is running at around 230,000 dwellings a year but supply is undershooting this mark by 60,000 at 170,000 dwellings.
The power of hypnotic suggestion is highly underestimated.
Imagine you completely mess up her measurements and overestimate her bust or waist?
He concluded the value of refitting the boats, at a total cost of $46.2 million, was below what Pricewaterhouse-Coopers then estimated the ferry corporation could get by selling them.
Opinion surveys naturally produce optimistic estimates, as do extrapolations of recent market returns.
Violence is conservatively estimated to cost $ 15. 5 billion a year in medical care nationwide.
Using the entropy framework, a prior, or expected value, and upper and lower bounds are needed for each estimated coefficient and error term.
His real kindness was shown by genial estimates of character and liberal appreciation of the labours of others engaged in kindred studies.
Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
That the BP oil spill may be twice as bad as earlier estimates was hard news to hear but no surprise to Christian Delos Reyes, a 39-year-old oyster dredger. Former EPA Chief On Gulf Oil Spill: 'It's Going To Blow The Record Books Up'
He estimate his income tax bill by extrapolation from figures submit in previous year.
Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely.
An estimated 1,400,000 people were eligible to vote to elect officials who in the past had been appointed by the President.
He divided twenty-four of the plants into six initial groups of four, in order of size as estimated by eye.
An average puff of a cigarette has been estimated to contain 4 billion particles of dust.
Most retail sales figures matched analyst expectations, but some big department stores undershot estimates. Blue Chips Take a Breather, Snap a Three-Day Win Streak
He hadn't been dead for very long - my earlier estimate of around six hours will be somewhere near the mark.
The world's largest maker of computer security software forecast second-quarter sales and profit that missed analysts 'estimates, citing weakness in the euro and "cautiousness" among customers. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Although prior to the lockout Westshore had an estimated 1 million ton stockpile of coal available to load, unionized longshore workers refused to cross the railway pickets and those who were working walked out.

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