Sentence examples for a solid estimate from inspiring English sources

Counting birds on the lek in the spring gave biologists a solid estimate of numbers.

By default, that should reveal a solid estimate on how much of the annual legal catch is being illegally diverted to Asia instead.

The new intelligence reports suggest that they could develop such a weapon in less than a year, but some officials warn that that assessment represents what one called "a best guess rather than a solid estimate".

"Our study provides a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had, by determining how much water was lost to space," said Geronimo Villanueva, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new paper.

That's a little bit higher than I'd have guessed, but considering OLED screens are still expensive, to say nothing of flash memory, it's a solid estimate.

By giving a solid estimate of worldwide declines, Jackson says, the study makes a case for aggressive, international conservation of remaining stocks.

We conclude that the given estimates provide a solid approximation to "real life" and can be used with some confidence as a clue for future studies for instance in order to perform power calculations.

Other officials said they did not have any solid estimates but described losses to tax frauds as significant and increasing.

A: No one seems to have a solid public estimate of the number of these weapons in Syrian government stocks.

Charley Von Bergen of the Marines guessed that 500 soldiers had been involved in one way or another, but he conceded that there was no solid estimate.

The most solid estimate in the report is the $34 billion worth of property losses from the attack.