national estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandestimate

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or 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 ofnationalandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnational estimate

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A more crediblenationalestimate, therefore, results from using the three-area average costs of time and travel.
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Obviously, an analysis of a single site is just going to be indicative of the promise of biomass programs and cannot be used as a definitivenationalestimate.
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Nonationalestimatehas been made of the value of returned medicines.
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The impact on employment, social security and social and voluntary services is so diverse that a reliablenationalestimatecannot be made.
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We have insufficient information to break down thisnationalestimateby region.
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I have not therefore sought to make anynationalestimateof this kind.
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Anationalestimateon the basis suggested would be of little value, because the problems to be dealt with vary greatly from area to area.
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It is too early to make a firmnationalestimateon the basis of those returns so far received.
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There is nonationalestimateof the financial value of damage done to growing maize by badgers.
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The number and volume of frauds identified are grossed up to produce a totalnationalestimate.
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The labour force survey provides anationalestimateof those unemployed who had previously worked in shipbuilding, but data for local communities are not produced.
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Nonationalestimateis available of the number of patients recovering from traumatic brain injury who require inpatient rehabilitation.
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There is nonationalestimateof the number of accidents caused by drivers falling asleep.
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It is not possible for individual water undertakers to identify water losses resulting from mains bursts, and therefore nonationalestimatecan be made.
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There is nonationalestimateof the financial value of damage to land, buildings, roads and other structures by badgers.
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Thenationalestimateof spending is based upon an aggregation of returns from individual authorites and embraces a variety of individual patterns of spending from quarter to quarter.
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Local authorities were asked to provide this information as part of the consultation exercise last year, but we did not receive sufficient evidence to produce a reliablenationalestimate.
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There are no plans to introduce a common 0.5 per cent, or other common standard and nonationalestimateof the costs of such a standard have beenmade.
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On an overallnationalestimatethe wearing of a properly fitted and adjusted belt reduces the risk of death or serious injury by as much as one half.
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The position would oversee thenationalestimatecenter.
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