Sentence examples for first estimate are from inspiring English sources

The basic problem is easy to understand: More than half of the ingredients in the first estimate are based in whole or in part on projections from past months.

The first estimate was based on participants' own judgment.

Mr. Dowling said that the first estimate was based on a "rough matrix" of pricing and that the final price was the product of "more refined data".

The first estimate is derived from a network of permanent monitoring plots and the second from woody cover assessments from aerial photography.

The first estimate was carried out with a purposive sample of 170 people (133 men and 37 women) who were participating in the treatment program.

The first estimate is always lower than the final tally, so the best way to analyse it is to compare it to the first estimate of the previous year.

The Office for National Statistics ONSNS) first estimate is expected to show growth of about 0.7%.

The first estimate is evident as the are positive and linear contractions on.

The first estimate is largely based on information the first two months of the three-month period.

The lowest forecast was growth of 0.2% - instead the first estimate is for a contraction of 0.5%.

The ONS points out that the data on which the first estimate is based is less than half the total amount it has access to by the time of the third estimate.