31.   Liddy said that it was too early to provide an estimate of what sort of catastrophic losses the company would incur in the current quarter.

32.   Ms. Messinger, the Manhattan borough president, also said some of her proposals would be costly, though she said she was unable to provide an estimate.

33.   NATO officials would not provide estimates of the amounts that nations would have to spend to upgrade, saying only that individual countries would have to find the money.

34.   Neither federal officials nor advocates for the elderly provided estimates of the cost of the new policy.

35.   On a morning conference call with analysts, the company declined to provide an estimate of its earnings.

36.   Online brokers who provide estimates but withhold the names of movers are especially suspect, as are those who bid far lower than anyone else.

37.   Organizers said they were delighted by the size of the crowd this year, but the U.S. Park police no longer provide crowd estimates for marches and demonstrations.

38.   Philip Morris declined to provide an estimate of its market share.

39.   Salt Lake City-based Marker, which also sells snowboards under the Santa Cruz brand, declined to provide sales estimates for the products.