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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a lower estimate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a value or calculation that is less than a previously mentioned or expected amount.
Example: "After reviewing the data, we arrived at a lower estimate for the project's total cost."
Alternatives: "a reduced estimate" or "a diminished estimate."
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Kenyan officials give a lower estimate.
Ironically, an early Ming original would carry a lower estimate.
The conservative Heritage Foundation has a lower estimate: $7 billion in social security taxes.
I don't know exactly by how much to pull it down, but the fact that I know that my neighbor has a lower estimate than me suggests that I should have a lower estimate than 150.
The piece sold for $11.4m; a lower estimate might have created more drama.
But analysts provide a lower estimate, a discount over all of about 20 percent.
The budget office methodology yields a lower estimate of the share of income from benefits.
The Census Bureau has given a lower estimate, saying that about 54percentt of the prestorm population of 444,000 had returned as of June 2007.
The Utah consortium is pegging the cost at $85 per megawatt hour, a lower estimate because city governments can borrow money at cheaper rates, Webb said.
A lower estimate that factors in mine-expansion costs drops the annual figure to $125 million each.
So Ashley's estimate was $5.00, but I'm now going to tell her that every single person in the room had a lower estimate than hers.
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