Sentence examples for may well overstate from inspiring English sources

But a simple addition of these numbers may well overstate a bank's risks because markets do not always move together.

As things stand, rates of erosion based on the distribution of 137Cs may well overstate the severity of the problem in lowland Britain and, therefore, are not a reliable indicator of water erosion rates.

The estimate may well overstate the direct value of the Fed's loans, as banks used much of the money for short-term purposes that tend to have lower profit margins.

Official figures may well overstate inflation by perhaps a full percentage point, so there are worries now that inflation may even be too low, if not veering into deflation.

This clutch of surveys may well overstate the decline of Labour's support; it would be surprising and (for Mr Brown) catastrophic if Labour's rating were to stay below 30%.

It's worth noting that this data is prone to bias and may well overstate the number of 'showstopping bugs' (testers probably had a strong incentive to rate their bugs as 'showstopper' so as to have a better chance at the prize).

Yet in the case of the Serb republic, such fears may well be overstated.

But, argues Amnesty, one effect of the clause may be to impose a financial penalty on any government that tries to improve human rights by, for example, requiring higher minimum safety standards or quicker redress for lost land.This risk may well be overstated.

A new report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) suggests that murky allocations of coal blocks by officials to mining companies have caused losses to the exchequer of perhaps $34 billion in recent years.The CAG's sums may well be overstated, and the allegations, inevitably dubbed "Coalgate", are nothing new.

So while the claims of social media as a democratizing tool may well be overstated, what the unrest in Egypt did show are the ways in which social media and Twitter in particular are transforming both media coverage and human rights documentation.

Trials that assessed short term effects or aimed to reduce weight in the low fat arms may well have overstated any effect size.