Sentences with phrase «hard time estimating»

Site work can account for up to 30 percent of a project's total construction cost, according to Detwiler, but developers tend to have a hard time estimating site costs accurately.

In my discussion with Monica I had a hard time estimating what I would likely be able to put into my Vanguard account each year into a taxable investment accounts (remember this is outside of my 401k and in addition to other investments).

Not exact matches

Apple, hard to characterise as an out and out manufacturer or pure technology play, currently trades at 13.5 times its estimated earnings for the next twelve months, higher than its five - year average of close to 13.

For those hard - charging types who are about as likely to embrace this zen approach as they are to grow flippers and take to the sea, there is more practical advice available which involves handicapping your time estimates and investing in some more clocks.

Hayashi's hard times are not unusual in the estimated $ 150 - billion effort to dismantle the Fukushima reactors and clean up the neighboring areas, a Reuters examination found.

A combination of circumstances makes model - based sensitivity estimates of distant times and different climates hard to do, but at least we are getting a good education about it.

It's estimated that roughly 65 % of the human population has a hard time digesting milk, with an estimated 40 million Americans suffering from lactose intolerance.

Lead and High School Graduation Rates Mother Jones, January 15, 2013 «Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane has a new paper out trying to estimate the high school graduation rate over time — something that turns out to be surprisingly hard....

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Writing a great book is hard work but we shouldn't under estimate the time and effort required to selling and promoting that book.

In view of its enduring stature and sales, this is a hard claim to disprove, but, certainly, few of us have spent as much time with the novel as Corrigan, who, by her own estimate, has read Gatsby some 50 times.

I prefer having a realtor pull comps and give me a much better estimate, though it's harder to track over time unless you want to annoy the piss out of them;)-RSB-

Uber's app gives you the option of entering your destination to receive an estimate of the total fare for your ride, but doesn't require it, which is nice if you're in a hurry and don't want to type all that information (or, better yet, if you're headed to a neighborhood where drivers will have a hard time finding a customer for the return trip).

When will it be a good time, or when it will run rough, we can never estimate, no matter how hard we try.

Although exact figures are hard to drum up, Holmes officials estimate that at any given time there are around 8,000 canines in the county.

Production time is always hard to estimate when building games.

Add in the fact that the thickness of the ice, which is much harder to measure, is estimated to have fallen by half since 1979, when satellite records began, and there is probably less ice floating on the Arctic Ocean now than at any time since a particularly warm period 8,000 years ago, soon after the last ice age.

(Much more of the time the news is an estimate upwards, as scientists adjust their own non geologic sense of time and change and our innate sense that changing things that seem very stable is hard.

At the present time, it's hard to tell whether the Hansen method would tend to cause the introduction of an upward trend relative to the maximum - likelihood calculation (as in the above case) or whether the trend differences from maximum likelihood estimates are randomly distributed between positive and negative values.

Essentially, Clegg finds that it's hard to estimate the Hurst parameter even for artificial time series where the answer is known ahead of time, even when working with 100,000 data points.

One developer of Truebit has said that «It's always hard to make estimates like that because one of the rules of software engineering is, however long you think something's going to take, it'll take three times as long,».

Nah, either too inaccurate or too hard to learn, estimate from experience, easier and faster, there is one software that comes to mind, Xactimate — but this needs money and time to learn, just use excel.