Sentence examples for estimates claimed from inspiring English sources

The Moscow police, who are notorious for under-estimating the attendance at street protests, said 21,000 people had marched, but some estimates claimed the actual number was as high as 70,000.

New Orleans still shows the effects — almost two and a half years later — of one of the worst disasters in United States history, which, by some estimates, claimed 1,400 lives.

Now hailed as a founding father of Bangladeshi photography, Mr. Talukder made some of the most important images of the war, which by some estimates claimed one million lives and turned 10 million of his countrymen into refugees.

Official estimates claimed about 18,000 casualties (including almost 5,000 dead).

Initial estimates claimed as high as 10,000 casualties, $14 billion in total economic damages, and 2.5 million people in urgent need of humanitarian relief.

He drove to the site and confirmed it: The parents of the five children had been killed in the cataclysm that, according to Haitian government estimates, claimed 233,000 lives.

Unconfirmed estimates claim as many as 1,000 people have been killed during the siege of Misurata.

Some unofficial estimates claim that virtual products are worth $1bn in the US and $5bn in Asia.

Some industry estimates claim as much as a third of future mineral production could come from beneath the oceans.

Conservative estimates claim that the delay in withdrawing the drug resulted in the deaths of 220 300 people.

They were sterilised and, during a period they refer to as the "Great Devouring", at least 100,000 (some estimates claim 1.5 million) were exterminated.