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The phrase "a estimate" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an estimate" because "estimate" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "Can you provide an estimate for the project costs?"
Alternatives: "a quote" or "an approximation".
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"Without knowing the answer to the second question, it's not possible to get a estimate of the total stock of firearms in the US".
The orginal said a estimate put the cost of a disorderly collapse of the euro at 5% of eurozone GDP, about $1tn.
Christie's said the painting, with a estimate of $5 million to $7 million, set an auction record for an American Modernist painting, surpassing the $6.16 million for Georgia O'Keeffe's "Calla Lilies With Red Anemone," sold at Christie's in 2001.
The Treasury said the number used in the budget was a estimate which had been certified by the Office for Budget Responsibility, and that the actual receipts would be worked into the final calculations when the financial year ends in April.
The five-year time frame was, in fact, a estimate.
A estimate of the battery size assumed the real operation is requreird.
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Indeed, we do (and did already in the original submission) appropriately cite their CENP-A estimate when introducing the motivation of our own quantifications.
Contact a local exterminator for an estimate.
Purely an estimate, of course.
(Frank declined to provide an estimate).
Now it has an estimate of $20 million to $30 million.
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