Estimated Quotes

See also Estimate QuotesSee also Estimate Quotes, Core English Vocabulary (E) Quotes

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

- Buffalo Bill

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

- Julie Bishop

(Jeff Perry, one of the store`s managers, estimated that 2,500 pizzas were prepared and sold on Thursday.) At one time, we had 300 customers inside and 1,000 outside. The parking lot was filled with RVs. Inside, it was like an ant bed had been stirred up and outside, it was like one big old party, ... But we managed to get pizzas to most people.

- Jeff Perry

(Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.) We estimated 1,000 people but we had about 2 or 3 thousand come today, ... Everybody can come out, have a good time and listen to music.

- Ben Adams

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? `Love thy neighbor.` Didn`t I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It`s the War on Poverty, and it`s a war that`s been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We`ve repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

- Nancy Giles

(In an increasingly electronic world, an estimated 70 to 100 million credit-challenged consumers in the United States are turning to prepaid debit cards for online and offline transactions alike. Credit-challenged Americans include students, low-income persons, and new immigrants.) Prepaid debit and gift cards enable anyone to transact online, offline, and by telephone, ... Prepaid cards are a perfect complement to Bills.com, our online bill payment property. The agreement with Carmen Electra -- given her fan base and natural appeal to a significant percentage of our target consumers is a coup for us.

- Michael Long

Since the installation of these new automated boxes, we`ve had a delay in getting the proper information for the past month or so, ... In the case that we could not get the proper information, the readings were estimated.

- David Hooper

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

- David Snyder

It`s estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

- Dennis Hastert

(The determination came in response to a virtual fishery shutdown in the affected states due to major flooding, damage to fishing boats and fishing ports, waterways clogged with debris and closed processing facilities.) We are taking action now because of the significant economic effects of Hurricane Katrina on fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Major commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico include fin fish, shrimp and oysters, with an estimated value of almost $700 million per year.

- Carlos Gutierrez

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

- Christopher Columbus

However we have 2.3 million estimated to be in need, that 500,000 represents a very small proportion.

- Michael Jones

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

- James Monroe

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

- Al Weed

It`s estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

- Alan Buddendeck

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

- Alan Schlesinger

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

- Alan Skrainka

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

- Alberto Melloni

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

- Alex Walker

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

- Alfredo Viegas

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World`s Indian population.

- Ali Aoun

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

- Allen Perry

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

- Allie Zazzali

As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.

- Alon Tal

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

- Alvin Kernan

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

- Amadeu Altafaj Tardio

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

- Amjad Jamal

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

- Andreas Schurig

(He estimated that he made) over 30 ... It`s such an icon. ... And it`s only with hindsight, you see that it`s (the original 1977 mask) not symmetrical and that it`s meant to be a machine-made thing. I was trying to make it look like ... it was fresh off the production line.

- Andy Alexander

(Some farmers are relocated. Others join the ranks of an estimated 150 million migrant workers drawn to the booming cities in search of jobs. Because of China`s restrictive household registration system, which prohibits rural inhabitants from moving to the cities, they are forced to work illegally, earning pennies an hour and without access to social services. While the migration is good for China`s overly rural economy, another 150 million peasants, lured by the promise of a better life, are expected to move to urban centres in the next decade.) China concerns me a lot because of the massive unemployment, ... I see enough people wandering the streets as it is. If they can`t keep this drive of construction and development, what are these people going to do? You just have to think about that. The Chinese are incredibly strong, they can take a lot more than any Canadian ever could. But I think there`s a limit to all that, too.

- Andy Osborn

Market direction likely hinges upon protracted negotiations in China, where offshore suppliers hope to narrow an estimated $35 to $40 per metric ton price gap between delivered prices in China and other major export destinations.

- Angela Kubasa

It is estimated that half of all sports-related injuries among children can be prevented. Protective equipment, safe playing conditions and the development and enforcement of safety rules help reduce the number and severity of sports injuries.

- Ann Hart

taking into consideration the area of the Big Creek Marsh basin, the number of days the pumps were in operation, and the estimated pumping duration, it is estimated that pumping by the Big Creek Hunt Club could have only lowered water levels by no more than approximately three inches. Upon cessation of pumping, only approximately 15 metres of mudflat shore was exposed.

- Arturo Gonzalez

(Clemens, a right-handed hitter with power to all fields, has hit over .300 with Greeneville and belted several mammoth homers. His first was a grand slam and reached the football stadium over the right-field hill in Johnson City. A blast atop the clubhouse in Pulaski, Va., was estimated to have gone 515 feet. His father wasn`t there for either.He was at a speaking engagement when Koby hit his grand slam and wondered why his cellphone kept vibrating. His wife, Debbie, and others were trying to let him know.) He`s on his way and he hasn`t done it on my coattails, ... I`m happy for him. I`m just kicking back and enjoying it.

- Asaf Buchner

They are estimated higher than what they will actually be,

- Barbara Perlmutter

The radar estimated between one and a half and two inches of rain over a three-hour period. That typically happens fairly often across Northeast Ohio and flooding doesn`t happen.

- Barbara Willer

People are consuming too much salt and excessive sodium levels in the diet are estimated to contribute to 41% of deaths annually from cardiovascular disease. One teaspoon less of salt a day per person would have a favourable influence on public health

- Barry Ancelet