The phrase "as first estimated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an initial assessment or calculation that was made prior to a later evaluation or update.
Example: "The project's completion date is now pushed back, but the budget remains as first estimated."
Alternatives: "as initially estimated" or "as originally estimated".
"The earthquake appears to have not been as big as first estimated," McKee said.
And in another boost for Paris, the growth figures for the third quarter were revised up -- the economy was flat between July and September, and didn't contract by 0.1% as first estimated.
The U.S.G.S. has issued revised data on the 5.8 magnitude earthquake, which experts now say occurred 6 km (3.7 miles) below the earth's surface, not 1 km (0.6 miles) as first estimated.
The only consoling feature to-day is that the number of killed was exaggerated as first estimated, albeit the total of fatalities is destined to be increased as communication is restored with the outlying districts.
Nigel Gault, the chief United States economist for IHS Global Insight, said the narrower deficit means that trade will not be as big of a drag on third-quarter growth as first estimated, meaning that gross domestic product growth estimates could be revised up to 2.3 percent from 2 percent.
The Home Office disputed whether the new estimates for online fraud and cybercrime should be added to the headline figure to create a new total, arguing that they were derived from trial data from a smaller sample and should be treated as first estimates rather than official statistics.
However, consumers weren't nearly as energetic as the government first estimated.
In our case, due to acute stiffness and the introduction of delay parameters as variables, we first estimated all nine parameters (rate constants k1- k6 and the delays τ1-τ3) manamely, namely by changing single parameters one by one.
The new low-complexity AS estimator first estimates the LOS component with a moment-based K-factor estimator.
The continued success of for-profits could be because the "college wage gap" is as wide as ever, since it was first estimated in 1915.
The location of this centromere was first estimated as the mid-point (in the opossum assembly) between these two markers.
