Sentence examples for loosely estimated from inspiring English sources

Rosina Cottage QC, for the prosecution, told the court the crown "loosely" estimated the trial to take four weeks, but that it would be "two weeks, three, plus".

A controversial hotel/motel tax will pay for part of the tab for a new stadium, loosely estimated at $1 billion, while the team and the league will pony up the rest for demolition and construction.

Seen another way, he was an opportunist using a murkily obtained fortune, loosely estimated at up to £6 billion, to topple Georgia's pro-Western government and move it closer to Vladimir Putin's Russia.Police are treating his death, apparently from heart failure, in his closely guarded Surrey mansion on February 12th as suspicious, at least for now.

This deposit still contains a loosely estimated 500 tonnes of thallium, and it is a source for several rare thallium minerals, for example lorandite.

Amyloidosis is a progressive and usually fatal disease that has been loosely estimated to cause about 0·5 1·0 deaths per thousand in the UK (Pepys, 2001), mostly of systemic AL amyloidosis type.

While it is loosely estimated that there are approximately 6,000 children living with HIV in Cambodia, 5,836 children (aged under 15) were reported to be receiving HIV-related care and treatment at public health facilities by the end of 2010.

The agency loosely estimates its deferred maintenance backlog at about $5 billion, but it acknowledged in a General Accounting Office report that it does not have accurate data on its needs.

The Exploratorium, the science museum that commissioned the work in the early 1980s from the artists Peter Richards and George Gonzales, loosely estimates that about 300 people visit the installation each week.

Using a spectrum of recent measurements of microbial background mutation rates, it becomes possible to at least loosely estimate the average elapsed time since isolation between YNP chemotrophic communities (discussed below) as a way to speculate on plausible bottleneck events.

Loosely estimate what your answer will be (over 100? over 200? less than 50? less than 20?) and check your calculations to see if you're in the ballpark.

Loosely, survival is estimated for each switching strategy, censoring individuals if they become "noncompliant" with the strategy, using weights to account for censoring.