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Even if he had given approval it would have taken a while for Ukraine to make Patriots themselves - some estimate at least a year.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The researchers "tested it in soil, seawater and deionised water. It degraded in all of those conditions ... and we estimate that it would biodegrade within about nine months," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
For the first time, the team was able to reliably estimate the relative numbers of small, faint stars and much larger, brighter stars in galaxies at such great distances.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Bancel gave him a back of the envelope estimate: half a million dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
A reasonable estimate of the additional costs for capitalizing a gradual emancipation program would have increased the national debt to about $125 million.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
By 2035, more than a third of China's population will be over 60, according to official estimates.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
And next year, it will need to close a roughly $700 million deficit, a mayoral task force estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Wall Street currently expects more than 50% revenue growth for the fiscal year, but Daryanani thinks estimates will move higher from there, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The models that most closely matched the observations provided new estimates of UGC 9050-Dw1's total mass and showed how that mass is distributed throughout the galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
His estimates were a little inaccurate, but good enough to make the point.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
An estimated 400,000 people were expelled from California alone during that time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
That missed the 718.6 million yuan loss estimated by analysts in a Visible Alpha poll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Shares are trading at 14x those 2027 estimated figures and 10x bullish 2028 expectations, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Both companies have been described as "Russia's Amazon" and it is estimated that they are used by 85-90% of Russia's economically active population.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder bills, which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything seems to be aboveboard.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Traditionally, astronomers estimating the mass hidden in small, faint stars have assumed that stars formed in roughly similar proportions throughout the universe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The staggering $1.4 trillion in alleged damages comes from estimating the number of affected users in the four states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
High-net-worth individuals have even higher expectations, estimating they will need $2.67 million to retire comfortably.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Company officials said they remain “committed to the fastest remediation possible,” estimating that the cleanup was about 80% complete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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