Sentence examples for getting an estimate from inspiring English sources

A neighbor, Chris Nehrbauer, tags along, partly to be neighborly but partly because he is getting an estimate next.

In those final weeks, when Scott was trying to nudge his brother toward selling the condo, he suggested getting an estimate for having the apartment repainted.

Add to that the $350 fee for professional appraisal of our house, the $221 for specialised help from an expert accountant and the hours spent on minutiae like cataloguing household furniture, estimating the value of used dresses, determining when my beloved "established legal residence" in our state and getting an estimate of the resale value of my battered pickup truck.

Part of the reason for doing this is to figure out why things are going so much worse than expected; but there's also the fact that the forecasts already included the known problems of the economies in question, so that you're more or less getting an estimate of the impact of austerity over and above the known problems (and the initially assumed effect of austerity, which was supposed to be small).

Having car insurance is seen as a necessary evil, and if something ever goes wrong, the process of getting an estimate for car repairs and receiving money from your insurance company to make those repairs is usually a huge pain.

The government "increased anti-immigrant prejudice" by not getting an estimate of the number of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to the UK ahead of restrictions ending, MPs have said.

DreamWorks is getting an estimated $30 million a movie over an unspecified number of years.

Caterpillar is getting an estimated $14 million in incentives, yet it will employ only 500 or so workers in Winston-Salem.

The education programme started with the objective of getting an estimated 1.5 million children into classrooms in 2002.

Then one subtracts the two estimated centers to get an estimate of a. Also, one estimates a robust measure of dispersion, such as the inter-quartile range (IQR) of each of the two distributions, and then divides them to get an estimate of b.

SURE is an unbiased estimator that can be used to get an estimate of the risk or the mean-squared error for a threshold value [ 21].