Sentence examples for estimated at close to from inspiring English sources

Rumaila's reserves are estimated at close to 18bn barrels.

Spending was estimated at close to $5 million.

Scruggs's fee over twenty-five years is estimated at close to a billion dollars.

Its revenue is estimated at close to $38 million by industry executives.

The figure of Iraqi deaths is now estimated at close to a million.

Capone's wealth in 1927 was estimated at close to $100 million.

While South Africa's official jobless rate stands at 25%, the true figure is estimated at closer to 40%, most of them young and black.

One study in the 1980s found that close to half of those interviewed after trauma surgery remembered parts of the operation, although these days, with better drugs and monitoring, the figure for high-risk surgery is generally estimated at closer to one in 100.

Bread and cornmeal disappeared from most shelves Saturday as stores complied with the order issued by President Robert G. Mugabe last week to halve the prices of basic commodities in an attempt to get a grip on rampant inflation, which reached an official rate of 4,500 percent in May, though real inflation is estimated at closer to 9,000 percent.

The total amount needed to compensate, however, is being estimated at closer to $60 billion.

Scher, who also coaches track, and fellow biology teacher Jerry Seliga, who also coaches girls soccer, voiced the common opinion that the money to be spent eradicating Indian imagery--estimated at close to $300,000 at Birmingham alone--would be better spent addressing the district's textbook shortage.