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  • As an estimate, he completed ninety sets, till at last, he stood on the corner of Himmel Street.†   (source)
  • There were now 12,000 army troops in the region—four times as many as their estimates of the Taliban—along with tanks, helicopters and sophisticated weapons.†   (source)
  • I gave Mrs. Nguyen our telephone number and address, and told her to get an estimate for the damages.†   (source)
  • I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word always four million times in the last year.†   (source)
  • The synthesized voice of the cab's computer told me the drive would take an estimated thirty-two minutes with the current traffic conditions.†   (source)
  • military deaths, an estimated 1,153 Japanese had been killed.†   (source)
  • What's your estimate of the monetary damage?†   (source)
  • His estate is estimated to be worth over two hundred million dollars.†   (source)
  • And here is what the computer estimated Ender would do.†   (source)
  • Chris also told me that this woman, whom I will call Mrs. Cheapo to protect her anonymity, had estimated that this was at least a twenty-dollar job.†   (source)
  • Based on his estimates, the energy output of the Earth is about 10'3 to 1016 watts.†   (source)
  • The broadcaster detailed the road closures—I-95, 1-89, New Jersey Turnpike—and the running tally of homes without power, estimated at ten million and counting across the Northeast.†   (source)
  • When the operation commenced, Hitler estimated the Wehrmacht would secure Moscow within four months.†   (source)
  • Marine Corps boot camp, with its barrage of challenges big and small, began to teach me I had underestimated myself.†   (source)
  • Time estimate?†   (source)
  • My estimation of captains and ship chandlers wavered.†   (source)
  • Facing charges of first-degree murder, George sat alone in front of an estimated crowd of fifteen hundred white people who had packed the courtroom and surrounded the building.†   (source)
  • I want to do the estimates and, if possible, I'd like a schedule so that I can try and plan some time off to come along with you.†   (source)
  • She quickly estimated the permutations.†   (source)
  • Which is the reasonable estimate for the number of paintings in each room?†   (source)
  • It looked fresh and bore the name Stephen—the n extra small and right at the edge because the carver hadn't estimated well how much room he'd need.†   (source)
  • I estimate that it requires one more minute.†   (source)
  • Flowers grow on her tiny wrought-iron balcony, and in summer she can estimate what time of day it is by feeling how wide the petals of the evening primroses have opened.†   (source)
  • He put the paperweight down on the ground that had once been a nettle-patch, placed it in the place that he estimated her head would have been, and pausing only to look at his handiwork for a moment, he went through the railings and made his way, rather less gingerly, back up the hill.†   (source)
  • I based my crop yield estimates on the potato industry back on Earth.†   (source)
  • The bidding started at the highest estimate.†   (source)
  • Don't you think you're underestimating him?†   (source)
  • In her estimation of it, their sex life had been at the heart of their marriage.†   (source)
  • I used to enjoy estimating quantities, but not anymore.†   (source)
  • There had been two hundred questions, and it was estimated that it should take two hours to complete.†   (source)
  • The estimated timetable for repairs to our school, and that means restoring everything to just the way it was, is three months.†   (source)
  • Pete wanted to make a killing, and an idea hatched was already in his own estimation a killing made, concrete and cherished.†   (source)
  • Lilly: So you're not aware that the crown prince of Genovia"namely, your father"has a total personal worth which, including real estate property and the palace's art collection, is estimated at over three hundred million dollars?†   (source)
  • But, as a correctional officer opened up a door and led Peter into the visitation room, Lewis realized that he'd underestimated what a shock it would be for him to see Peter.†   (source)
  • AND I WOULD ESTIMATE THAT ONLY HALF OF OUR CASUALTIES HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH VIETNAM—THERE ARE A LOT OF CAR ACCIDENTS, YOU KNOW, AND SOME SUICIDES.†   (source)
  • "Estimated Progeny Differences," said the older man.†   (source)
  • Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.†   (source)
  • Chella's estimate of twenty thousand men could not be far wrong.†   (source)
  • By its position, I estimate it must be going on ten o'clock, that we've been in the arena for about a day.†   (source)
  • Most of us, so it was estimated, would be killed.†   (source)
  • My father was calculating minutes, estimating the temperature of the water, readjusting his estimate of when Bing fell.†   (source)
  • I try to estimate how many he's had.†   (source)
  • The span I would estimate as eight or nine feet across.†   (source)
  • I estimate the direction the sewer cap is turned in.†   (source)
  • Sources of information vary, but it is estimated that one in five children are physically, emotionally or sexually abused in our country.†   (source)
  • Leo estimated the whole state of Massachusetts passed below them before his friends spoke.†   (source)
  • Everyone was, at a minimal estimate, "a good egg" or "a decent sort," and motivation was never judged to be at variance with outward show.†   (source)
  • It has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.†   (source)
  • There is no underestimating a positive figure in a child's life.†   (source)
  • Each one could eat three chiles if they wanted, a fairly generous estimate.†   (source)
  • We have estimated six hundred of them in this holding alone, but we suspect there are more, likely in the network of lava tubes beneath the moon's surface.†   (source)
  • Using the ratio of infected to clean here at the base, we estimate that one out of every three surviving human beings on Earth is one of them.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he said gaily, "in less than two minutes I would estimate."†   (source)
  • It was the second time he'd underestimated his opponents.†   (source)
  • DELPHI: "A much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft"—you two are the greatest, you know that?†   (source)
  • The trafficking of looted paintings and sculptures is estimated to be a six-billion-dollar industry worldwide.†   (source)
  • Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder bills, which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything seems to be aboveboard.†   (source)
  • By the time they had their first burst of success in 1964, in fact, they had performed live an estimated twelve hundred times.†   (source)
  • Each year, an estimated 700,000 immigrants enter the United States illegally.†   (source)
  • Alex estimated it to be about three thousand.†   (source)
  • Brian couldn't estimate temperature but he thought it must be near zero, but quiet—the wind had stopped completely—and his clothes kept him as warm as if he'd been in the shelter.†   (source)
  • I've greatly underestimated them.†   (source)
  • All the same, you felt dreadful, just knowing you'd fallen in her estimation, and you wanted to do something straight away to redeem yourself.†   (source)
  • At one point it was estimated that every school library in America had an Amazing Amy book.†   (source)
  • Alice feared he was making more of her than he ought, that not loving him wouldn't be the hardest part of their coming years together; it would be living up to his estimation of her.†   (source)
  • He estimated the far side was about a half mile away.†   (source)
  • I thought he could have given me a decent estimate if he had wanted to.†   (source)
  • I estimated that the smooth walls rose to a ceiling that must be only a few meters beneath the surface of the crag where the Bikura had set their huts.†   (source)
  • During one party, we estimated he ended up getting two-thirds of the birthday cake, nabbing piece after piece off the paper plates the children held on their laps.†   (source)
  • The top of his head meets the cabinet above him, and I estimate from the similarities in our kitchens that he stands about six inches taller than me.†   (source)
  • "I estimate eight hundred fifty million thaums," Kilvin said.†   (source)
  • He was a very temperamental young man, but in the Chairman's estimation, quite brilliant.†   (source)
  • She estimates three for each adult, one or two for each of the children.†   (source)
  • "Tomorrow morning," she promised, "I'll get estimates on the repairs."†   (source)
  • Estimating conservatively, I'd guess there have to be about six hundred things Nathaniel might find objectionable about this deal.†   (source)
  • And your estimate of the typical percentage of annexed populations who were made into ancillaries is excessive.†   (source)
  • They estimated it would take them at least two years if they bought no CDs, DVDs, games, clothes or shoes, which were Sophie's big weakness.†   (source)
  • I was fuzzy on the details, like everything else right now, but it appeared that Lena, Macon, all of us had underestimated Lena's powers as a Natural.†   (source)
  • Davis estimated that Holmes made $200,000 through his drugstore and other business ventures, most of which were fraudulent.†   (source)
  • I estimated six hundred yards—a slight difference from the first estimate, but enough to make a big difference.†   (source)
  • After a few weeks my fevers became more pronounced, and my mother realized that because I am large and active for my age she'd been underestimating my dosage of quinine.†   (source)
  • He held one of them up to the light, trying to estimate the gap without hunting around for the gapping tool.†   (source)
  • Nadia and her colleagues spent much of that day staring at the television next to their floor's water cooler, but by afternoon it was over, the army having decided any risk to hostages was less than the risk to national security should this media-savvy and morale-sapping spectacle be allowed to continue, and so the building was stormed with maximum force, and the militants were exterminated, and initial estimates put the number of dead workers at probably less than a hundred.†   (source)
  • But I underestimated them.†   (source)
  • I've seen reports estimating that more than 2 million people lived within its roughly eight square miles.†   (source)
  • One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons—an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.†   (source)
  • I thought of the tense standoff in the tent this morning, and I wondered if I'd underestimated how close it had come to a fight.†   (source)
  • * The data for defensive end pay, because it includes the salaries of both ends, underestimates what was paid to the ends, like Chris Doleman, coming off the blind side, who tended to be paid a lot more than their counterparts on the other side.†   (source)
  • A Victor class, bearing zero-five-zero, estimated target speed thirty knots.†   (source)
  • But the officials had underestimated my niang.†   (source)
  • Estimated reading time for this document is 15.62 minutes (and don't think we won't check).†   (source)
  • Since she estimated that she had a couple of hours before he returned, she decided not to be too hasty, and to proceed calmly.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what their casualty rate was, because both Mikey and I estimated Sharmak had thrown 140 men minimum into this fight.†   (source)
  • The 2000 census revealed that fully one-third of Clarkston's population was foreign-born, though almost everyone suspected the number was higher because census estimates did not account for large numbers of refugees and immigrants living together in Clarkston's apartments.†   (source)
  • Although they were estimating, these two men were so skillful that when they handed the pericardium to Long and me, all of the pieces fitted perfectly.†   (source)
  • Even though he doubted he'd catch anything he wanted to keep, fishing was, in his estimation, one of life's greatest pleasures.†   (source)
  • He estimated that he had about 300 pages left to write.†   (source)
  • He was long and sinewy, but because of his mild manner we had always underestimated his strength.†   (source)
  • I think we all underestimated them, both coaches and players.†   (source)
  • Maybe she'd underestimated him all along.†   (source)
  • The last time that they had helped her calculate her age, during the time of the banana company, she had estimated it as between one hundred fifteen and one hundred twenty-two.†   (source)
  • Attendance last year was estimated at 4,000.†   (source)
  • She estimated that this pleasure room used water enough to support a thousand persons on Arrakis—possibly more.†   (source)
  • An attorney friend of mine estimated he might spend seven years in prison.†   (source)
  • "Don't look now," Vee said, "but Mr. Green Sweater keeps looking this way, estimating your long legs through your jeans....Oh!†   (source)
  • Police estimate that he killed more than a dozen people, earning his name from the grisly way he left his victims posed like statues.†   (source)
  • I had a junior engineer make the estimate on a walkway up at fan number three, and I heard there was some cement left over.†   (source)
  • At least fifty thousand dollars, the curators had estimated.†   (source)
  • According to the government, there are approximately a quarter of a million children under the age of eighteen, but our estimate is closer to a tenth of that.†   (source)
  • The figure on the screen roughly corresponded to my independent estimate, feebly arrived at after long searches through documents, tormented arithmetic.†   (source)
  • MR. MALLOY: Some job estimate that went wrong.†   (source)
  • They chatted for a while over the golf sweaters, swapping information on destinations, estimated arrivals and the properties of fog.†   (source)
  • An estimated one out of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by McDonald's.†   (source)
  • There is no way she's going to breast-feed Nathan standing in a line that she estimates will take fifteen minutes to get through.†   (source)
  • Someone had spotted where the firing was coming from and estimated it to be four hundred and fifty meters in front of us.†   (source)
  • A UN report estimated that 1 million children in Asia alone are held in conditions indistinguishable from slavery.†   (source)
  • That should have kept the nightmares from you, but clearly I underestimated the dosage you required?†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, those were estimates, a pure guess.†   (source)
  • Sophos blocked, but he underestimated the force of the blow and had to back up to regain his balance.†   (source)
  • One ticket-holder, believed to live in southwest London, has won an estimated jackpot of £10 million.†   (source)
  • If cots were brought in and the hall was used as a dormitory, Mrs. Clutter estimated, the house could accommodate twenty guests during the Thanksgiving holidays; the others would have to lodge at motels or with neighbors.†   (source)
  • Just get a folder, a notebook, and get second estimates on everything.†   (source)
  • I estimated at least 6 feet, 8 inches.†   (source)
  • And the time must be—he estimated closely—five after five now, perhaps close to ten.†   (source)
  • Call estimated it to be over a hundred horses strong.†   (source)
  • Johnnie responded with alacrity, not aware of having either risen or fallen in her companion's estimation.†   (source)
  • "I underestimated her," I told Will.†   (source)
  • I think you're underestimating the Clave.†   (source)
  • Besides, this gentleman is the show's new veterinarian—from Cornell no less—which puts him a good deal higher than you in my estimation.†   (source)
  • An estimated 60,000 people had turned out.†   (source)
  • They're scared to sign and worried that if they don't they'll sink in our estimation.†   (source)
  • The United Nations estimated that about eight thousand people got killed, most of them murdered by the Haitian army and its paramilitaries.†   (source)
  • This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students' answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.†   (source)
  • And there were not so many dead for him to bury any more, Colonel Korn pointed out, since opposition from German fighter planes had virtually ceased and since close to ninety per cent of what fatalities there still were, he estimated, perished behind the enemy lines or disappeared inside the clouds, where the chaplain had nothing to do with disposing of the remains.†   (source)
  • The embargo already has cost an estimated 5,000 jobs, as plants close.†   (source)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, to date, "At least 10 to 12 million adults have been infected with HIV."†   (source)
  • Towering to nearly Mr. McDaniels's height, she was an elegant woman whose age Max found impossible to estimate.†   (source)
  • Source of the wave estimated as seventy miles south of the Mothering Sundays.†   (source)
  • I've underestimated Felicity's need for control.†   (source)
  • From a distance, I would estimate, of no more than three to five feet.†   (source)
  • He estimated Kyle was driving about forty miles per hour; the other vehicle, an old pickup, much faster than that.†   (source)
  • The Bay of Pigs had taken place just six weeks earlier, and JFK's image had been vastly diminished in the estimation of many European leaders.†   (source)
  • Maybe a really fast, chivalrous soldier out there would beat my estimate.†   (source)
  • "Forgive my hasty estimation," he said to Jack.†   (source)
  • His ideas are always referred to as "germs"; his figure estimates are "in the ball park."†   (source)
  • The police officers gave me an estimation of what they might weigh, a man, and I said, yes, that looked approximately correct.†   (source)
  • But there I underestimated him.†   (source)
  • Estimated gross worth, three billion, eight hundred million.†   (source)
  • "In my estimation," Michal said.†   (source)
  • As the afternoon wore on, the bulletins multiplied and a vast radio audience built: as many as eighty million listeners by one estimate.†   (source)
  • The mechanic had gone, telling me he'd email the estimate.†   (source)
  • Purchasing the hundred bags of cement Mortenson estimated the school would require was anticlimactic.†   (source)
  • She underestimated you, for one.†   (source)
  • One estimate is that a fifth of all English verbs began life as nouns.†   (source)
  • It estimates that more than 270 million people visit amusement parks each year, and that 7,000 people out of those 270 million go to emergency rooms for injuries they receive on amusement park rides—that's only 0.00259 percent of riders.†   (source)
  • That just shows how swell-headed I was, and how I underestimated Grandpa.†   (source)
  • To reinforce the idea that they already knew what Quality was he developed a routine in which he read four student papers in class and had everyone rank them in estimated order of Quality on a slip of paper.†   (source)
  • Seventy-three Americans, forty-six French, thirty-nine and twenty-four Australians and British respectively, and an estimated fifty white male contacts recruited from neutrals in Hanoi and trained in the field-most of them we never knew.†   (source)
  • By some estimates, more than twenty-five thousand African slaves were brought to Cuba in the first twenty years after the treaty went into effect.†   (source)
  • In all only 120 bodies would be recovered, though officials estimated that nearly 300 people perished in the flames.†   (source)
  • In Dar es Salaam I was met by a crowd estimated at half a million.†   (source)
  • Five-ten, he estimated, and most of it leg.†   (source)
  • Some estimated it was more than sixteen thousand people, many of whom sat on a long berm behind the outfield.†   (source)
  • —"Comrade Clayton"—who not only had clean bill of health in Alverez's File Zebra but also stood high in Wyoh's estimation.†   (source)
  • Funny, he knew Leon was in a precarious position and yet there was always the danger of underestimating him.†   (source)
  • Still, the (not real high) estimation I hold for her just rose a notch or two.†   (source)
  • Alessandro stepped back to re-estimate.†   (source)
  • "Are you saying," he asked slowly, "that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?"†   (source)
  • Estimations of my daughter-in-law's worth coming to us from a big-house girl in Tongkou will be most appreciated.†   (source)
  • He had estimated that it would take fifteen minutes for the assault boats to cross the river; twenty-five had passed now, and there was neither sign nor sound of them.†   (source)
  • In 2004, there were an estimated 1.4 million kids who fit this description.†   (source)
  • 'Your estimated time is the same?†   (source)
  • Humans do not live a very long tine by your ageless estimations.†   (source)
  • Underestimating or overestimating your ability can be fatal.†   (source)
  • Already the mayor was feeling the heat; you could tell, because his surrogates on the council and the boards of Estimate and Education had begun quietly assailing Kwang for his interest in providing tax vouchers for bilingual education, to have English Only in the schools but subsidize native language study outside.†   (source)
  • The sub in forensics was a retired cop who told us real stories about blood-spatter patterns and estimating when a murder had been committed by the age of the maggots and flies on the corpse.†   (source)
  • The sky was dense and gray; it was difficult to estimate distances.†   (source)
  • He genuinely wondered, even as he estimated himself to fall in the top twenty percent of the general population, careerwise.†   (source)
  • He estimates perhaps one hundred thousand men.†   (source)
  • When the four men, whom Si estimated weighed at least 250 pounds each, stepped into the boat, it sank deeper into the water—alarmingly deep!†   (source)
  • In France, they are estimated to be 15% and in Britain, the proportion is still greater.†   (source)
  • But if You actually do the tonnage and make a good guess on engine size compared to the Glatun ships we've seen, they can't actually be carrying that many KEW Our estimate is, what?†   (source)
  • Saturday was the day he went around giving estimates; that was when the husbands were home.†   (source)
  • He knew me well enough to realize how important family was to me, but he grossly underestimated how valuable Sofia had become.†   (source)
  • I called to ask how far they were from saving you, and all I ever got were vague answers and impossible time estimates.†   (source)
  • Langley estimates that because of global warming, the south of England will one day be among the world's largest producers of premium wine.†   (source)
  • tens: Would you care to estimate?†   (source)
  • The South held more than 3,000,000 slaves, estimated to be worth one billion dollars.†   (source)
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