Sentence examples for extrapolating from inspiring English sources

The only way to justify the inclusion of Ukip in these debates is by somehow extrapolating its future popularity in the next election by looking at meaningless opinion polls.

Extrapolating from the mouse data, you would need to keep your calorie intake to three-quarters of the amount recommended by dieticians.

Happily extrapolating from UCLA's figures, the Drug Policy Alliance reckons savings over the first five years will add up to $866.5m plus another $500m saved by not having had to build yet another prison.Yet Proposition 36's advocates are feeling uneasy.

Quick counts are made by extrapolating from samplings of Indonesia's nearly 500,000 polling stations.

It relies on imagining the future rather than extrapolating from the past.

The exact number may never be established: after the first Gulf war, unreliable estimates were obtained by extrapolating from the number of destroyed Iraqi vehicles.

But even if his numbers are right that is just a kink in a graph of killing that has risen for most of the past four years.If the case for staying depended on extrapolating from the modest gains the general claims for his surge, it would be a weak one.

Kevin Gardiner of Barclays Wealth, who coined the phrase "Celtic Tiger" in 1994, says that Celts have a nasty habit of extrapolating both good and bad times for ever (as a Welshman, he dares to make such generalisations).

Extrapolating such results to humans is fraught with difficulty.

Extrapolating from the brain sizes and social networks of apes, Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148.

Extrapolating the resulting mobility rates across many generations gives a misleadingly sunny view of long-term equality of opportunity.