Sentence examples for be a gross overstatement from inspiring English sources

First is that a villager's estimate of 40 kilometers for the journey, which they had thought to be a gross overstatement, may well have been accurate.

That may be a gross overstatement, given the country's many other policies that are widely considered dangerous for both Iran's people and the outside world.

Instead, the Iranian leader told a packed press conference, "The position of Iran throughout the world will be stronger and better than before". That may be a gross overstatement, given the country's many other policies that are widely considered dangerous for both Iran's people and the outside world.

It's proper to note that the figure of $750 billion in U.S. assets may itself be a gross overstatement.

Thus, for the authors to conclude that breastfeeding has "no effect on child well-being" is a gross overstatement and is overtly false.

That is a gross overstatement.

To call state failure the principal menace to international order is a gross overstatement.

This description of my grandfather Rudolf Wertime is a gross overstatement and very likely far from accurate.

This was a gross overstatement: the real span of what Ptolemy meant by the "known world" — Eurasia and Africa — was only about a hundred and twenty degrees.

"To say, O.K., that spallation will make them all is a gross overstatement and in fact is quite unlikely to be true," Dr. Cameron said.

"It is a gross overstatement of the facts for her to claim even partial credit for bringing peace to Northern Ireland," Mr. Craig wrote in the foreign policy memorandum, which has been distributed to reporters.