7 sentences with 'estimates'
Example sentences and phrases with the word estimates and other words derived from it.
• « The results were devastating: some scholarly estimates indicate that the population of Greece declined by as much as 90% in the centuries following the Bronze Age collapse. »
• « While estimates vary considerably, between 35,000 and 55,000 accused enemies of the Revolution were executed or died in prison during this era, which was further intensified by widespread incarceration (totalling half a million people, 3% of the adult population). »
• « Men and women were massacred whether or not they had participated in the uprising, villages were burned to the ground, and the death toll easily exceeded 100,000 (some estimates put the figure much higher). »
• « It is important to recognise that it was indeed the USSR that broke the back of the Nazi war machine. At the cost of at least 25,000,000 lives (some estimates go as high as thirty million), the Soviets first stalled, then retreated and finally destroyed the vast majority of the German military forces. »
• « In addition to the murder of the Jews, millions more were killed by the Nazis in the name of their ideology. While estimates vary, at least 250,000 Roma ("Gypsies") were murdered. At least 6,000 homosexual men were murdered. »
• « Dr Platzer estimates the ancient man's weight at 45 to 50 kilos, his height at around 1.58 metres, and his age at 25 to 35 years. »