Sentence examples for ballpark estimates from inspiring English sources

"They were ballpark estimates of what the likely figure is which we no longer regard as accurate," said one.

Consult the Food and Drug Administration Web site for ballpark estimates of the shelf life of cosmetics.

Ballpark estimates for the bond offering would put the yield at less than 6 percent, which is hardly crippling.

These are very welcome figures, but ballpark estimates do not put the flesh on the bones of the housing sector's transformative effect on communities.

He established a minimum award of $250,000, protected the privacy of relatives of undocumented immigrants and agreed to give ballpark estimates of what people would receive before they commit to the fund and thereby waive their right to sue.

Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, said ballpark estimates from Republican aides indicated that the F.D.A. would need 500 more inspectors to get to the point where foreign companies were inspected with the same regularity as domestic companies.

No construction estimator would ever give a customer even a ballpark estimate for such work without at least a semicomplete scope-of-work description.

For a ballpark estimate, www.SimpleTuition.com will compare offerings from more than 45 lenders.

Will Knight, general manager of Locker Shop, put a "purely ballpark" estimate of £40-£50 £40-£50r on this, not including labour.

But it's a reasonable ballpark estimate, and it suggests that cars have much bigger footprints than is traditionally believed.

The idea is to get a ballpark estimate, that's within an order of magnitude of the actual result.