Sentence examples for estimate of the quantity from inspiring English sources

He recently forced the department to reassess its estimate of the quantity of plutonium and other man-made elements spilled into the dirt during weapons-making; the department concluded it was too small by a factor of 10.

"Based on a conservative estimate of the quantity (700) and the price ($120,000)," the prosecutors wrote, "the total cost for the surface-to-air missiles that Bout intended to use in connection with the charged offenses was $84 million…Rather than seeking a forfeiture of $84 million, however, the Government requests a money judgment against Bout in the amount of $20 million".

The cost was dependent on an estimate of the quantity of power to be exported.

Agents update their estimate of the quantity of interest based only on neighbour agent values, allowing iterative estimation improvements without agents requiring knowledge of the network beyond their neighbour set.

In 1950, calculations by the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam and his collaborator Cornelius Everett, along with confirmations by Fermi, had shown that not only was Teller's earlier estimate of the quantity of tritium needed for the H-bomb a low one, but that even with higher amounts of tritium, the energy loss in the fusion process would be too great to enable the fusion reaction to propagate.

Each set of simulated data was then analysed in exactly the same way as the original data-set, in order to produce a different estimate of the quantity of interest (e.g. threshold, regression gradient).

Specifically, an estimate of the quantities of high-value aromatic compounds produced from a typical quantity of borra feedstock in a multi-stage integrated biorefinery is presented in Fig.  12.

Ballpark estimates of the quantity of labor, machine time, and support resources used don't help managers' efficiency and productivity improvement efforts.

Another issue concerning any sampling method is the required time to obtain reasonably good estimates of the quantity in question.

The number of publications and the impact factor of journals are accepted estimates of the quantity and quality of research productivity.

As can be observed, annual estimates of the quantity of both cocaine and cannabis herb seized fluctuated throughout this period; however, the quantity of heroin seized increased relatively steadily.