The phrase "a cautious estimate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when providing a careful or conservative assessment of a situation, often to avoid overestimating or underestimating something.
Example: "Based on the available data, we can provide a cautious estimate of the project's completion time, which is approximately six months."
Alternatives: "a conservative estimate" or "a careful approximation."
If the world follows China's lead, that figure could yet turn out to be a cautious estimate.
The best bet is that GTE would take at least a year to get through, while nine months would be a cautious estimate for WorldCom.
Here's one: Fifa enjoys tax-exempt status at the World Cup, as do its corporate partners, and Brazil's Internal Revenue Service has claimed – in a cautious estimate – that such exemptions rob the host country of nearly $250m.
According to international officials whose job is to cope with human flotsam and jetsam, the problem of statelessness is growing fast, despite a modest decline in the number of refugees in the strict sense.In a cautious estimate, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that in the course of 2006 the number of stateless persons had climbed from 2.4m to 5.8m.
The jobs are a cautious estimate and could be higher".
They quote a warning from the Scottish government's own Fiscal Commission that the country "should plan budgets on a cautious estimate for oil revenues".
The firm's valuation would be just slightly more than $7 billion, a fairly cautious estimate, ranking it below rivals Blackstone and KKR, according to Bloomberg.
We chose the TRF scale for this analysis and not the CBCL as teachers rated the children lower than parents on all scales, thus rendering a more cautious estimate of psychopathology.
A cautious sales estimate puts the number of copies sold at around 26m for the first novel alone, earning it a three-year residency on the New York Times bestseller list.
The UN considers their testimony to be "consistently reliable".According to the UN's cautious estimate, over 8,000 civilians have been killed in the fighting since January 20th.
The cut-off was selected to yield cautious estimate of the seroprevalence and comparable data with the Finnish study [ 17]; the prevalence of the infection is probably underestimated.
