6 sentences with “estimate”

I estimate that it took the tree about three years to cover the five feet that separated it from freedom. And it never faltered.

Scientists estimate that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster resulted or will result in various leukaemias, breast, thyroid, lung and other cancers.

The police estimate that he must have been going about 95 kilometers per hour in an area where the maximum speed limit was 65 kilometers per hour.

Radiocarbon tests carried out over the following months on small fragments of the man's tissues and clothing gave an even higher age estimate: between 5,300 and 5,350 years.

The death toll was staggering: in the end, the Black Death killed about a third of Europe's population in just three years (this is a conservative estimate - some historians today have estimated it was closer to half!).

Although Hitler himself was frustrated to discover that his estimate of ten weeks of conquest was inaccurate, the first few months of the invasion were still a stunning success for German forces. Despite their early success, however, the German advance was halted by winter.