Sentence examples for estimate from inspiring English sources
The word "estimate" is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it when roughly calculating or assigning a value to something, and you want to express that the calculation is not exact. For example, "The estimated cost of the project is $1,000.".
Government figures estimate benefit fraud due to identity theft at between £20-£50m £20-£50mm, a fraction of the LSE's low cost estimate for the scheme of £10bn.
As a result, we estimate that around one quarter of graduates on the lowest incomes will actually pay back less than under the current system.
The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted "law enforcement homicides" exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture.
By adding together the household wealth of each household they are then able to provide an estimate of total household wealth in Britain.
Previous estimates put the amount of heat accumulated by the world's oceans over the past decade equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, on average, but Trenberth's research puts the estimate equivalent to more than 6 detonations per second.
Wikipedia claims a collective total of something like £50m at a conservative estimate".
– live Q&A A conservative estimate would place the number of Syrians being held in Syria's prisons at 150,000, Ghadbian added, but this number could be as high as 230,000.
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