31.   As far as fire-fighters pensions is concerned, the revised estimate is is really significantly higher than the original estimate.

32.   The day after the flood there were estimates that the bill could run to m.

33.   The maximum-likelihood estimate is unbiased, with minimum variance, so it is a good estimate to use.

34.   Estimates can be quite accurate once two days in advance are concerned.

35.   Are your estimates all equally unreliable?

36.   In the longer term, estimates are usually made to cover reasonable extremes of change by presenting three sets of projections -- high, central and low.

37.   But this ignores the possibility of short-lived deafness, i.e. not all of y will be included in x so that the estimate will be too low.

38.   The buyer tells us that bright colours are not sold because sales estimates are low.

39.   Now estimates are are actually that.

40.   But even if my estimate is significantly wrong, computing remains a growth area, and one in which, notwithstanding economic recessions, the outlook looks bright.