generous estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgenerousandestimate
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generous
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əs/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əs/
willing to give money, help, kindness, etc., especially more than is usual ...
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estimate
noun[C]
uk/ˈes.tɪ.mət/us/ˈes.tə.mət/
a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something ...
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(Definition ofgenerousandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The mostgenerousestimatesuggests that a large minority of men did not hold any offices during their lives.
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I think that that is agenerousestimate.
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I think that that is a verygenerousestimate.
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Altogether that makes the actual requirements every year about 120,000, and that is agenerousestimate.
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Even making agenerousestimate, £4,000 over two years is £48 a week.
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I think it will be agreed that this is a verygenerousestimate.
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Even that is perhaps agenerousestimate.
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I base that calculation on a verygenerousestimateof two minutes for each irrelevancy or bogus point of order and two minutes for each ruling.
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That is a mostgenerousestimate.
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Then there are pension charges, £110,000,000, so that we get a total of £560,000,000 to be taken out of the possible £900,000,000, which is the mostgenerousestimateanyone can make.
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Based on visual estimates by police and city officials, and conceded by city officials in 2003 to be an overlygenerousestimate.
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There were initial problems with the launch, but they largely arose because the service's popularity outstripped even the generous estimates of likely use.
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Even if there is some argument about the unit costs, the difference on the most generous estimates costs £1 per local taxpayer per year.
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Those figures are all approximate, and to my mind they are fairly generous estimates, especially for the £90 of ordinary maintenance, plus the £50 special repair fund.
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