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Before today, analysts had been estimating growth of about 10 percent, he said.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 12, 2012

One top Ford Administration economist, who had been estimating that prices would be rising at a 6% rate at year's end, now privately predicts 7%.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first analysis of it had revealed that there were just 30,000 genes in it, not the 100,000 that many had been estimating until a few months before.

From Time Magazine Archive

That hurt his story, because he had been estimating it at five hundred feet; but he was strictly honest and accepted the new figures like a little man.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

All the way down in the automobile she had been estimating the value of her new possession.

From From the Housetops by Cootes, F. Graham