13 Metaphors for estimating

The length of this canal is about two and a half miles, and the original estimate was 200,000 dollars, but this sum has been found insufficient.

My estimate of their cost was a mere guess.

Yet our estimate for the day's travel is forty miles.

[Footnote 233: It was often asserted that fourteen-fifteenths of the land in Ireland belonged to Protestants, but this estimate was, probably, an exaggeration.]

Hence the estimate of Galvano is 2000 miles long by 1200 miles broad; certainly a very extensive dominion.

The lowest estimate reached by the Forest Service of the timber now standing in the United States is 1,400 billion feet, board measure; the highest, 2,500 billion.

In his consular report of 1882, Consul-General Van Buren makes an approximate estimate of the annual aggregate circulation of a dozen noted papers of Tokio to be not less than 29,000,000 copies.

It is probable that his own estimate of his poetry was nearer the truth than that of his admirers, who were naturally inclined to be partial.

An estimate is "an approximate judgment, based on considerations of probability, of the number, amount, magnitude, or position of anything.

There can be little doubt that the estimate of Mr. Wright, of Maryland, (fifteen thousand annually,) is some thousands too small.

" I do not wish to be understood as asserting religious or even moral justification of suicide, but the high estimate placed upon honor was ample excuse with many for taking one's own life.

His estimate for the costs of the whole façade is 35,000 golden ducats, and he offers to carry the work through for that sum in six years.

The scrubby hills gradually approached on each side; at 9.30 the good land terminated, the estimate being 2,000 acres on the south bank of the Greenough River.

13 Metaphors for  estimating