Sentence examples for last year estimates from inspiring English sources

There were 25m more international tourist arrivals in the first six months of this year than in the same period last year, estimates the UN's World Tourism Organisation.

One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million are seventy-three million sharkilled killed for their fins every year.

By contrast, in the upfront market last year, estimates were that CBS was able to raise c.p.m.'s an average of 8 to 9 percent.

With the required numbers of security staff more than doubling in the last year, estimates of the Games' immediate security costs have doubled from £282m to £553m.

GDP probably grew by 3.6% last year and forecasts for this year suggest only a modest slowdown.One clear sign of something amiss is Spain's current-account deficit, which widened to 8.8% of GDP last year, estimates the OECD.

Last year, estimates KPMG, nearly four-fifths of British companies' spending on mergers and acquisitions went to the United States; even without the huge BP-Amoco deal, the American share was three-fifths.

Forbes last year estimated Pohlad's net worth at $3.1 billion.

A survey last year estimated that there were about 2,700.

Had the federal minimum wage kept up with productivity gains since 1968 it would have reached $21.72 last year, estimates the Centre for Economic and Policy Research CEPRR), a leftish think-tank.

Today, estimates are closer to 500.

This year estimates range from 40,000 to 80,000.