Sentence examples for estimates how fast from inspiring English sources

The agency estimates how fast gas is leaking from each sort of device in the system well, valve, compressor, and such and multiplies that flux by the number of such devices in the system.

But defense planners are notoriously bad at estimating how fast postwar military cuts actually come.

Measurements of these microearthquakes help scientists estimate how fast the fault is slipping at its deepest levels, he said.

Schering-Plough has upset investors for nearly two years, largely because of its inability to estimate how fast its Claritin franchise would deteriorate.

To derive from the model a long-term forecast for the American market, it is necessary to estimate how fast corporate earnings will grow.

Flying at 10,000 feet, he estimated how fast the winds would move the clouds as he drew, because they were supposed to be at specific spots -- for example, near the Empire State Building.

Every analyst has a different take on each airline's plight, in part because the instability of the situation makes it difficult to accurately estimate how fast companies are spending cash reserves.

WASHINGTON, March 16 - Government employees assigned to predict how water would flow through a proposed nuclear waste repository in Nevada, a crucial part of estimating how fast the radioactive material would leak, may have falsified some of their work, the Energy Department said on Wednesday.

Astronomers have used stars like Polaris for decades as "standard candles" in calibrating cosmic distances and estimating how fast the universe is expanding.

For decades, physicists designing new tokamaks have been forced to extrapolate from experiments to estimate how fast this complicated turbulence will cause heat to leak across such fields.

The team filmed the birds swimming and diving and used a computer program to estimate how fast the animals' bodies and feet moved.