The phrase "a real estimate of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a genuine or accurate assessment of something, often in contexts like finance, project management, or research.
Example: "We need a real estimate of the project's costs before we can proceed with the planning."
Alternatives: "an accurate assessment of" or "a genuine evaluation of".
"In some cases, we can't get experts into the stadium to look at things to get a real estimate of how long it will take," said Marty Kuehnert, an adviser to the Eagles who fled Sendai for Kyoto.
While a first approximation of E. coli burden to land, this field-based protocol represents one of the first comprehensive approaches for providing a real estimate of a dynamic microbial reservoir at the headwater catchment scale and highlights the utility of a simple dynamic empirical model for a more economical prediction of catchment-scale E. coli burden.
After all, waste of unused antibiotics would not reflect a real estimate of neonatal DDDs.
Those who declined to participate (n = 16; 10.9%) were anonymously counted as HZ cases to allow a real estimate of the incidence of the disease.
Similarly, a microtomographic evaluation of the bone structure gives a real estimate of its morphology, especially when it is carried out directly on the entire volume without using predefined volumetric models (plate or rod-model) [ 19].
Due to the lack of well-defined serum samples, no real estimate of the diagnostic sensitivity was initially possible.
However, it is important to underline that the simple measurement of colony forming units does not give the real estimate of the infection risk.
A review by HM Revenue & Customs will give a real- time estimate of how much is being raised, which could pave the way for him to scrap the 50p rate in his 2013 Budget.
Projected — based on the driver's recent driving style — seeks to be more of a real-world estimate of expected mileage on a particular trip.
In this paper, an artificial neural network is used to develop a real-time estimate of the final fitness and error bounds at each iteration of the solver.
Although quit-line callers represent a small population of smokers motivated to quit, these data present a real-world estimate of the potential effectiveness of using e-cigarettes for cessation in a population of smokers motivated to quit.
