Orton estimates its current at Napo in the month of November as 6 m.
No general census has ever been taken in Ecuador, and estimates are little better than vague conjectures.
In the investigation of past times, the incommensurate elements of well-being are so numerous that merely money estimates are frequently misleading.
Mr. Clifford Roe estimates that more than half of the girls who have been recruited into a disreputable life in Chicago have come from the farms and smaller towns in Illinois and from neighboring states.
The reportestimates the yearly profit of this nefarious business as conducted in Chicago to be between fifteen and sixteen millions of dollars.
The report further estimates that the average girl who enters an illicit life under a protector or manager is able to earn twenty-five dollars a week, representing a capital of twenty-six thousand dollars.
The valuable report of the Chicago Vice Commission estimates that twenty thousand of the men daily responsible for this evil in Chicago live outside of the city.
And by this principle (we are told) the mind estimates the magnitude of an object, comparing the angle under which it is seen with its distance, and thence inferring the magnitude thereof.
This phenomenon of the horizontal moon is a clear instance of the insufficiency of lines and angles for explaining the way wherein the mind perceives and estimates the magnitude of outward objects.
Father Aragoneses estimates that 2,200 persons were killed, besides many being wounded.
It is this many-sidedness that leads to the different estimates that are formed of him.
On the estimates being framed for the ensuing year it was found that the expenditure was somewhat heavier than had been anticipated.
Leach estimates that, in 1546, there were approximately three hundred grammar schools in England for a total population of approximately two and one half millions.
Edmund Burke's conspicuousness makes his character and the record of it of first importance, and we need for successive estimates of his influence to consult the lives of him by Bisset, Prior, P.
Three of the estimates referred to in the text are reprinted by Schoolcraft under the following headings: "Enumeration of M.
The Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society contain many estimates of the population of the natives in different parts of the country, made at different times.
The item "60 gross scalping-knives" are among the official "estimates of merchandise wanted for Indian presents at Detroit from Aug.
A survival of the feelings had doubtless colored some of the later estimates of Schuyler's character, and the opposing views can be seen in Lossing's Schuyler (ii.
They include his estimates of various generals of the British army; strictures on the peculations of some of them; including criticisms of Howe's conduct in the fights at Long Island, Whiteplains, and Trenton.
The numbers of the different tribes are given, and the date of the estimates from which the numbers were derived.
For the reduction of Niagara he estimates that an army of twenty to twenty-one thousand men would be required; thirteen thousand to remain in the East, and seven or eight thousand to operate against Niagara.
Estimates of income, water-rates for supply of 1,000 buildings.
We shall be pleased to furnish estimates for all the Beams complete, for any specific structure, so that the difference in cost may at once be ascertained.
Whatever estimates we may attempt to form cannot however be regarded as at all exact, for we know the actual distances of such a very few only of the nearest of the stars.
On the other hand, these estimates do not embrace the great benefit to the physical condition of the soil that results from the incorporation of a large amount of vegetable matter.
Estimates of cost can be made with fair accuracy, and estimates of resulting profit can be made without any assurance of accuracy.
Cheek estimates the population of the area covered by the city and its suburbs at about one hundred thousand souls.
It opens with a startling reversal of the common estimates of happiness and misery.
Finally, while nothing showed that the average Korean lacked the elementary virtue of patriotism, there had been repeated proofs that the safety and independence of the empire counted for little in the estimates of political intriguers.
Lalemant estimates the Neutral population, in 1640, at twelve thousand, in forty villages.
For these reasons, it seems to be beyond question that the number at which our authorestimates them in Scotland, viz.
A late writer in the Dublin University Magazine estimates that five thousand words would serve the same purpose in the English language.
He estimates that the Spanish Gipsy language may consist of four or five thousand words; a sufficient number, one might suppose, to serve the purpose of everyday life.
Their numbers have been calculated by one who lives on the direct line of their passage, through the braes of Perthshire, and who has had frequent opportunities for observation; and he estimates them at several hundred.
But the estimates here, with one exception, have been based on village counts by ethnographers rather than on historical data.
If these estimates are judged reliable, it would be desirable to use them as a basis for estimating the population of the remaining groups.
The confidence intervals for the area estimates are given by the following formula (Bennett and Franklin, 1954, p.
Kroeber reduces this average by a third, on the basis of his estimates for the Yurok and Hupa, to arrive at a figure of 5 houses per village.
If the following estimatesare in error because the sample is not a random one, then the error is probably one of underestimate rather than overestimate.
From the diagram in figure 2 it appears that the estimates based on area have greater dispersion than those based on fishing miles and are therefore less reliable.
The fact that the estimates run so high tends to bear out Cook's contention that the Kroeber estimates should be raised.
The figures are point estimates with 80 per cent confidence intervals.
If this was the practice, then the population estimates might have to be reduced by half or even more.
The large sums of money with which the admiralty deals in the way of both estimates and expenditure, amounting recently to about L.
No very great reliance can be placed upon the figures relating to turnips (which include swedes), as these are mostly fed to sheep on the ground, so that the estimates as to yield are necessarily vague.
It was then ordered that he should be consulted before any expenditure which the estimates had not provided for was incurred, and before any money voted was applied to other purposes than those for which it was provided.
It has already been pointed out that the naval lords, if they dissent from the estimates that are presented, have no remedy but that of protest or resignation.
The accountant-general's department has three principal divisions: the estimates division, the navy pay division, and the invoices and claims division.
The parliamentary and financial secretary is responsible for the finance of the department, the navy estimates and matters of expenditure generally, and is consulted in regard to all matters involving reference to the treasury.
The financial basis alluded to is, of course, found in the estimates of the previous year, modified by the new conditions that arise.
He frames the estimates for his department, but his purchases are made through the director of navy contracts.
At the time when he wrote these estimates of the sages at whose feet he had sat as a student, some of his old friends were under a cloud, and he had to be careful not to compromise them by his praise.
Those who seek in his estimates of himself for illustrations of the grace of humility will seek in vain.
In the third edition of The Vegetable Kingdom he estimates the number of orchid genera at 469.
Of his actual literary accomplishment, something like a detailed view has been given in this little book, and of some of its separate departmentsestimates have been attempted.
He knew him, and stood with his hat in his hand till he passed.
They sat on the ground in the Moorish style, with each his hand on his drawn cymetar.
It was that of pain; and she took up the lamp, to see if she could find its immediate cause.
Hooker estimates the rebel force, at the utmost, at eighty thousand men, and that is all that they could have.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estimates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
