previous estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofpreviousandestimate

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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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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 ofpreviousandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The value of stores, equipment and vehicles is somewhat less, as stocks have been run down since thepreviousestimatewas prepared.
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Such short-term deployments are not included in the calculation of emergency tour plot intervals and do not affect thepreviousestimatefor 1993–94.
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The increase over thepreviousestimateis wholly attributable to inflation and exchange rate variations.
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I have just received a slight correction to mypreviousestimate.
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This compares with apreviousestimateof 51·1 gigawatts adopted by the council in 1979.
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I cannot confirm thepreviousestimate, and there is no current estimate.
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Finding these bounds requires a long sequence of hard estimates, each improving slightly on thepreviousestimate.
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The surplus follows a projected $44 billion deficit for the 2011/12 financial year, up from thepreviousestimateof $36 billion.
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The vote passed despite five councilors changing their vote to oppose the motion, because the cost had increased from apreviousestimateof $400,000.
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This is also in contrast to thepreviousestimateof more than 500 species as part of the dental biofilm.
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Cost-utility ratios are reduced by about 25% to 30% in the new model compared with the previous estimates.
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The previous estimates were found to be approximately independent of y+ over the near-wall region.
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This improves previous estimates and is tight up to a constant factor.
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They suggested that electric net efficiency is nearer to 50% than 100%, and that previous estimates of trap efficiency were greatly inflated as a result.
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We also update our previous estimates of mutation parameters in diploid yeast.
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The income from production activities of super-hunter households might therefore be higher than the previous estimates.
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Moreover, if we agree to store one y additional real number per iteration, we can easily update the previous estimates at each step.
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This conclusion is contrary to previous estimates.
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