6 sentences with 'estimate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word estimate and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « I estimate that it took the tree about three years to cover the five feet that separated it from freedom. And it never faltered. »
• « 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. »
• « Scientists estimate that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster resulted or will result in various leukaemias, breast, thyroid, lung and other cancers. »