low estimate

collocation in English

meaningsoflowandestimate

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low
adjective
uk
/ləʊ/us
/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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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 oflowandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As hospitals generally get some financial support from the government, this cost is likely to be alowestimate.
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I say 'lowestimate' because the 1717 figures are considered to be deeply flawed and to underestimate considerably the actual population levels.
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Thelowestimateis 130 patients completing per year, whereas the high estimate is the one applied above.
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This is a purposefullylowestimate.
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Since the optical data were obtained for the human eye, and the smaller macaque eye may be inferior in optical quality, the cone-plus-blur curve may be alowestimate.
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The model predicts correctly the small matching ranges measured in some deuteranomalous subjects, principally accounted for by alowestimateof noise level in the red-green channel.
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The high estimate for number of sequences is the one used above, 250 patients per year completing, whereas thelowestimateis those 130 patients who actually completed the treatment.
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There were 70,000 foreign visitors, who were supposed to have spent something like £1,100,000 at alowestimate.
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I think most people, particularly agriculturists in our own country, were rather surprised at the verylowestimate.
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Six thousand is a verylowestimate, probably it will be nearer 10,000.
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Those will cost a further £50,000,000 at alowestimate, an average of £2,000,000 per station for each district.
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A manufacturer has an interest in putting forward a comparativelylowestimateso as to secure the contract.
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To put it at a verylowestimate, suppose of those 7,500 women 1,000 had young children—and that is a very low figure.
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So we are concerned that there should be that difference and that we should have such alowestimate.
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I will take a verylowestimateas to the number of small holdings which will be required.
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Taking alowestimate, the better class of houses have cost at least £300 each.
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That is a verylowestimateto put upon the intelligence and the interest of the electorate.
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It is, to my mind, a verylowestimate; but what is required even on these figures?
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After all, that is an ignominiouslylowestimateof the motives which govern the soldiers in the field.
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