1.   Any differences that emerged could therefore be regarded as conservative estimates for the species as a whole.

2.   At a conservative estimate the water was nearly a yard deep, even near the edge.

3.   I understand that is a conservative estimate.

4.   One conservative estimate is that he stole five million dollars.

5.   Again, this is a conservative estimate, since it is based on wage and salary income only and excludes profits.

6.   And that figure is a conservative estimate, they say, because it does not include couples who live together instead of remarry.

7.   And that may be a conservative estimate.

8.   Boorady said Oxford shares were up, because the Norwalk, Connecticut-based company had made a more conservative estimate of what the final rate increase would be.

9.   Allen stressed that the numbers in the survey are conservative estimates.

10.   Bryan Crossley, research analyst with ABN Amro Hoare Govett, said the bank may have underreported earlier in the year using conservative estimates.