Sentence examples for formal estimate from inspiring English sources

The legislation includes no formal estimate of its cost, but it clearly would be in the billions of dollars.

Airport groups have not made a formal estimate of the number of transfer passengers who might be affected by the new regulation.

Risk analysis is rarely invoked or taught in the clinical sciences, and management appraisals on individual patients almost never include a formal estimate of risk.

The last formal estimate of the jaguar population was in 2005, when about 50 of the animals were believed be living on the peninsula, according to Inogo, a joint United States-Costa Riconservationion program facilitated by Stanford University.

Molly Watkins, a spokeswoman for the Campaign Finance Board, said that while a formal estimate had not yet been prepared, the total cost of the program would most likely be much less than the mayor had predicted, perhaps about $50 million.

A9 Increase on Weapons Estimate American intelligence agencies have tripled their formal estimate of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile systems believed to be at large worldwide, after determining that at least 4,000 of the weapons from Iraq's prewar arsenals cannot be accounted for.

Furthermore, these projections were accompanied with formal estimates of uncertainty.

As the authors of the report that so impressed him admit, theirs are "subjective indications … some of which should be regarded as illustrative calculations rather than formal estimates".

We have to train project team members in estimating procedures, then the team should conduct formal estimates following those procedures and publish their results.

The clause that limited the spraying of Corexit to "rare occasions" was strict: sorties had to be approved by a senior E.P.A. official, and formal estimates had to be made of the size and composition of slicks.

But Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y ., who sits on the committee, told BloombeR-N.Y . the vote might take place before the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation get a chance to produce formal estimates of the bill's effects on insurance coverage and the federal budget.