| But civil rights groups and immigration lawyers point out 18 months is a conservative estimate. |
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| The median is a more conservative estimate of WTP than the mean, since it gives less weight to extreme observations on the high side. |
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| This conservative estimate is based on the assumption that a large number of ultrasonologists are incorruptible. |
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| When the Irish anthem had finished the Irish supporters, numbering 30,000 at a conservative estimate, joined throatily in a rendition of La Marseillaise. |
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| The inquest heard she was taking eight tablets a day, but doctors feared this was a conservative estimate and the real figure could be much higher. |
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| Forty years is a ridiculously conservative estimate, as can now be demonstrated, and it turns out that microfiche's shelf-life is limited too, far more than paper. |
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| The print run for Transition is 5,000 copies, but the actual readership is much higher: 10,500 is a conservative estimate. |
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| Generally, the Government reports the lowest or average figure in the range to provide the most conservative estimate of program impacts. |
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| A reasonably conservative estimate was therefore made with regard to rental income. |
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| A conservative estimate of the time it takes to finalize the review is six months after the fiscal year-end. |
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| This is a very conservative estimate as actual figures in 2001 were already in excess of this at 40 shiploads per annum. |
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| A conservative estimate suggested that mistaken identification contributed to the wrongful conviction of more than 300 people a year in England and Wales. |
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| One conservative estimate put the number of protesters at more than six million people, making it largest ever simultaneous demonstration since the Vietnam War. |
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| At a conservative estimate, anywhere between three to five million people live inside these protected areas and several millions more around them. |
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| Despite the fact that a conservative estimate for the overall cost of the project is in the region of 40 million both men believe now is the time to make such an investment. |
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| The price was paid in Latin America in the deaths and disappearance of, at a conservative estimate, around 100,000 people throughout the subcontinent. |
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| However, this is a conservative estimate that suggests at most just one in eight of all non-resident accounts opened over the period in question were bogus. |
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| The budget should be based on a conservative estimate of probably attendance. |
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| This is considered a conservative estimate and is in line with the findings of the previous investigations. |
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| He believed these levels of additional income to be a conservative estimate. |
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| This yields a conservative estimate of fall and winter usage. |
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| Taking only those who had actually paid a bribe into consideration, a conservative estimate suggests that people spend about 7 per cent of their annual income on bribes. |
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| Of this amount, the conservative estimate has been made that 167,000,000 acres are first-class agricultural land that will raise the finest of crops. |
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| Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. |
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| I would also like to add that I have not put any multiplier effect on the direct salary figures or the contractor fees paid out, but a conservative estimate of a factor of three, I think, would be reasonable. |
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| But that might be a conservative estimate. |
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| However, as a conservative estimate, this amount must have been at least equivalent to the sales price of the licence, as it makes no economic sense for the licence to sell for more than its true worth. |
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| At least two of those, and this is probably a conservative estimate, ran too uninspiringly recently to be given serious prospects this time. |
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| The worldwide amount of methane in gas hydrates is considered to contain at least 1x104 gigatons of carbon in a very conservative estimate. This is about twice the amount of carbon held in all fossil fuels on earth. |
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| It would be difficult to count the number of certified products in the marketplace, but a conservative estimate would put it in the hundreds of thousands, from plumbing fixtures to life jackets. |
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| This, he admits, is a conservative estimate. |
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| Once more, this is a conservative estimate. |
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| They admit that this is a conservative estimate. |
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| At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year. |
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