Sentence examples for severe underestimate from inspiring English sources
Ian Brinkley, director of The Work Foundation, an economic thinktank, said: "The estimate is higher than it was but it is a severe underestimate of the true size of their use.
Furthermore, we show that assuming a-priori that local concentrations are normally or log-normally distributed may result in a severe underestimate of the probability of exceeding large concentrations.
These figures are likely to be a severe underestimate of the actual gap, as they exclude not only regional development projects but also reconstruction of the region's war torn countries.
If this situation also prevails in the general population, the reported data will be a severe underestimate of the actual disease burden in Sri Lanka.
This is most likely a severe underestimate, as we only used available markers and might have missed some of the remaining polymorphisms, which could give rise to new variants of genes.
The number of genes in the common ancestor of the seven genomes is unknown; the suggested 10,000 genes in the pre-hexaploidy genome [ 3] (30,000 in the hexaploid) is likely a severe underestimate; plant genomes generally have more than 20,000.
Another economist, Robert N. Stavins of Harvard, said the regulators were "systematically biased" in ways "that lead to potentially severe underestimates of costs".
In contrast, estimates for invertebrates are likely to be more severe underestimates because these species are more difficult to collect and identify.
Amber Peterman, leading author of the study, said: "Our results confirm that previous estimates of rape and sexual violence are severe underestimates of the true prevalence of sexual violence occurring in the DRC.
The ability to attribute proportions of the home injury burden to features of the home were correspondingly limited, leading to probable severe underestimates of the burden.
Failure to acknowledge sensitivities and specificities in the analysis would result in an underestimate of anti-HCV prevalence and a severe underestimation in the years prior to 1998.
