Sentence examples for estimates escalate from inspiring English sources

Annual pest management costs for controlling DBM are approximately US$2 billion; however, if yield losses attributed to insect damage are included, overall estimates escalate to US$4 5 billion (3, 4).

In time, though, the initial estimate escalated as decisions were informed by politics, civic pride and jealousy — emotions rather than dollars and sense.

In the last four years, as the great ice sheets at the poles have come to seem less stable, the estimates have escalated.

Nevertheless, after weeks of escalating estimates, many in the city were breathing a sigh of relief that the river was poised to begin that retreat.

The discrepancies in petrophysical estimates are further escalated due to pressure- and pore-size-dependent fluid flow mechanisms in the nanopores of ultra-tight rocks.

The crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic continues to escalate, affecting an estimated 2.5 million people inside the country, about half of them children.

A conservative estimate of the escalating body count in Pierre Morel's gleefully chaotic action-adventure comedy "From Paris With Love" is two dozen a day, boasts John Travolta's trigger-happy character, Special Agent Charlie Wax.

The prevalence of diabetes continues to escalate around the world, with an estimated 24 million people affected in the U.S. (1).

The total cost of diabetes in 2007 was estimated to be $174 billion4(4), and this economic burden is likely to escalate over time.

Over the past couple of years, the funding partners have become alarmed about the rapidly escalating cost estimates and delays in getting the project moving.

Site preparation begun and two 9 inches guns were purchased, but escalating cost estimates caused the plan to be abandoned by 1868.