Sentence examples for estimates meaning from inspiring English sources

John Amos, the group's president, said he estimated that the spill was perhaps 10 times larger than Chevron's estimates, meaning it extended over about 918 square miles.

It is a problem that is getting worse by the day, with more than 107,000 foreclosures in September alone, and one of every five mortgages underwater, by some estimates, meaning the homes are worth less — often substantially less — than the mortgage.

They have gained ground on the generic Congressional ballot in recent weeks and now lead it by about two percentage points on a likely-voter basis, according to our estimates, meaning that they might have a slight edge in races that might otherwise be split 50-50.

To support Obama's statement, an administration official pointed the Huffington Post toward a November 2009 Congressional Budget Office memo's conclusion that "Roughly one out of eight people purchasing coverage through the exchanges would enroll in the public plan, CBO estimates, meaning that total enrollment in that plan would be 3 million to 4 million".

Further, they can be assured that uncertainty and variation in parameters is included in these estimates, meaning that we now have a tool to investigate complex dietary systems with greater quantitative rigour than before.

We also underline that the Bayesian smoothing of the relative risks yielded essentially conservative estimates, meaning moderate sensitivity but high specificity [ 16].

Extending the example to 3 tests will result in 7 independent equations and 7 parameters to estimate, meaning that the equations are "estimable".

Even a small pilot project costing only $20,244 saved the lives of 97 infants, the authors estimated, meaning that it cost just $208 per life saved.

Photographs and video clips lend considerable plausibility to this estimate — meaning this was possibly the largest crowd in the streets of Tehran since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's funeral in 1989.

The ONS said, however, that the first post-crunch recession in 2008/2009 was deeper than first estimated, meaning that economic output is now 3.9% lower than its pre-crash peak, compared with a previous estimate of 2.6%.

At the same time, expenses — mostly salaries — are growing as much as 20 percent a year, some people in the industry estimate, meaning many private banks must absorb potentially heavy running costs for years before they are profitable.