Sentence examples for estimates were rough from inspiring English sources

Energy Department officials said cost increases were to be expected because the original estimates were rough approximations.

Carlin Timmons, a park ranger, said that all the estimates were rough, but that historians believe 12 million to 15 million Africans came to the Americas and the Caribbean.

But the estimates are rough.

Marcus Noland of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, has summarised several studies.* All the estimates are rough; but they are also all huge.

While emphasizing that the estimates are rough given that the leak is at 5,000 feet below the surface, Admiral Landry said the new estimate came from observations made in flights over the slick, studying the trajectory of the spill and other variables.

Federal and BP officials initially announced that no oil appeared to be leaking, then 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000 a day, frequently repeating that spill estimates are rough at best and that the main goal was to stop the well.

If you use these two metrics, that's over 90 "physical" items, ships, ghosts, sparrows and pieces of armor, compared to maybe 90 or so Curse of Osiris items (though my weapon estimates are rough).

Although both estimates are rough, their agreement suggests that a small increase in may account for the fairly high population dynamics observed during the last 2,000 generations.

While this paper has highlighted recent published analyses of the costs of such adverse events, quantifying these costs is difficult, and our estimates are rough at best.

Hope admits his estimate is "rough and ready", but it signals an order of magnitude.

This estimate is rough and might be an underestimate, since two of the closest four elections have occurred recently".