Estimates

Examples

• It must be clearly understood by the reader how sketchy and provisional all these time estimates are. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even with this last serious draw-back, however, the lowest of the various estimates given was twenty thousand pounds. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But when the road was opened for use the excess in traffic beyond the estimates was much greater than the excess in cost had been. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The army of these crusaders, according to the lowest estimates, consisted of 90,000 infantry and 40,000 horsemen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hecker estimates the total as twenty-five million dead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mulhall estimates that the steam horse power of railroads in the world amounted in 1896 to 40,420,000, of which the United States had more than one-third. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Estimates of the age of the Big Trees vary from the Christian Era through a period dating back beyond the coming of the Christian Saviour about 4,000 years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Our estimates vary with our moods; the time may be much longer than our hopes and much shorter than our fears. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He held himself to be, with some private scholarly reservations, a believing Christian, as to estimates of the present and hopes of the future. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Estimates place this profit high in the millions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Your estimates for this contingency should be made at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It takes one thousand reis to make a dollar, and all financial estimates are made in reis. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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