Sentences with phrase «more modest estimates»

South Korean officials gave a more modest estimate of 50 kilotons.

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Home prices in and around the city rose by 11.7 % over the last year (by Zillow's estimate), with a more modest one - year forecast of 5 %.

It is possible that measured GDP growth is somewhat overstated due to difficulties in estimating the GDP deflator, which is falling considerably more quickly than other price measures; nominal GDP has grown by a much more modest 0.8 per cent over the year, although this is still an improvement on recent history.

Worse, July's decline was revised lower, to a drop of 2.3 %, from a more modest setback that had been estimated earlier.

These relatively modest numbers are dwarfed, though, by estimates of the size of the «Scottish diaspora» using looser interpretations of the term that include those with more distant Scottish ancestry, in particular those who still consider themselves to be, in some way, Scottish.

While modest compared to the estimated 20,000 or more homeowners who could be helped under the program, that's a dramatic improvement from the program's first year in which virtually no homeowners received such assistance.

Yohe estimates the cost of achieving a more modest goal of holding warming to roughly 2 degrees C at a cost of 0.5 to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product for the U.S. by 2050, thanks to the expense incurred by, for example, replacing existing coal - fired power plants with renewables or retrofitting them with carbon - capture technology.

While the latest estimates do show defense R&D with a relatively larger gain, as seen in the overview table, this is mostly due to the «artificial» NNSA R&D increase mentioned above, while DOD, the bigger driver of defense - related R&D, would receive a more modest increase in line with nondefense R&D.

He's got big stars — Jodie Foster and a bald Matt Damon — and a big budget, estimated to be more than three times the size of District 9's modest $ 30 million price tag.

Although unadjusted estimates suggest that the associated increase in risk of continuing (or the benefit of cessation) is modest at around 20 %, the adjusted estimates suggest a more than doubling of the risk of death from continued smoking.

Peru and Brazil are undoubtedly leading worldwide providers of the fruit, the former generating an estimated 71 tons in 2010; but such modest yields are more than made up for by the high price caused by its demand.

These estimates are reasonably precise, with standard errors around 0.07, showing that our research design has the power to detect more modest effects as well.

That estimate assumes that the systems work exactly as intended and that drivers react correctly to warnings, so it's not surprising that so far the measured benefits from these systems tend to be more modest.

The company has set modest sales expectations and also offers the estimated 45 mpg 328 diesel if you want a more sensible variant that otherwise delivers most of the experience.

Earlier this month, Rubiyat from 1973 was offered at Swann's with a more modest $ 60 - 90k estimate.

For precisely this reason, the numerous proxy and model - based estimates of the variations in the average temperature of the Northern Hemisphere (not just just the Mann et al reconstruction, as implied by your comment) show far more modest temperature changes than those typically interpreted from specific proxy records from any one region.

That a modest earthquake in eastern Turkey on Monday took dozens of lives (probably many more than today's estimates) speaks to the importance of basic information on safer construction for masons, mayors and builders in seismic hot zones in rural regions as well as fast - growing cities.

The Charney Report stated that numerical modelers of global climate had estimated that the modest warming caused by carbon dioxide would be greatly amplified by a more powerful warming from an increase in water vapor, particularly in the tropics.

Home prices in and around the city rose by 11.7 % over the last year (by Zillow's estimate), with a more modest one - year forecast of 5 %.

Based on modest estimates for appreciation and reasonable expectations for profits, it's likely to take three or more properties to produce the cumulative equity and rental earnings you need to get to the nominal sum of $ 1 million down the road.