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• "Estimated cost in parentheses."
• "or the average estimate of 500 random people who know nothing about cows?"
• "Scientists estimate that the web's carbon footprint (the CO2 it produces) is growing at around 10% per year, which could be bad news for internet giants such as Moogle, Microtosh, and YouLube."
• "There is another potential solution to this problem. We could have Bob or Jean change your phone number, at an estimated cost of $35 dollars."
• "I estimate my daily efficiency will improve by 2.65 percent."
• "Your estimated waiting time is: 364 minutes."
• "While there are an estimated 12 million immigrants of Mexican origin working illegally in the US, we are focusing on this isolated case only because a celebrity is involved, and that's what the people want to know about."
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• "Those are low estimates, but that puts us roughly at 1.8 million USD, without any shipping and labor costs."