"estimated nearly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to indicate a rough or approximate estimation of a quantity or value. Example: The cost of the project was estimated nearly $1 million, but the final cost ended up being $1.2 million.
Researchers estimated nearly 10 million acres of medium-quality land are currently unused.
At an estimated nearly five million barrels, it was the largest offshore oil spill in the nation's history.
A recent report by the American Journal of Public Health estimated nearly 2 million women have been raped in the DRC, with one woman victimised every minute.
Last week, there were 67,443 prescriptions for Tamiflu dispensed by retail pharmacies, Verispan estimated, nearly quadruple the 17,172 for the same week a year ago.
An assessment in 1995 estimated nearly 2.76 billion barrels of crude oil in five basins in western Montana, much of Wyoming, parts of eastern Utah and western Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.
All told, the researchers estimated, nearly 160,000 of the coronary deaths that were prevented or postponed in 2000 "were attributable to medical therapies" administered to patients already known to have had heart disease.
The state estimates nearly $260 million in crop damages through August.
The UN estimates nearly 500,000 Iraqis flee the fighting in subsequent months.
Between 1500 and 1600, Krebs estimates, nearly 6,000 editions were reproduced for readers in German-speaking countries.
Michael Van Splinter, Foxwoods director of environmental services, estimates nearly half of the 770 employees in his department are immigrants.
And of adults believed to have the illness, health officials estimate, nearly one-third do not know it.
