1.   The disease afflicts an estimated two million people every year.

2.   An estimated one million people in the United States are HIV-positive.

3.   An estimated dozen people, members of Freemen and their families, remained holed up at the ranch in northeastern Montana.

4.   An estimated two million people visit the resort island annually, many of them returning year after year.

5.   An estimated one million people visit St. Maarten every year.

6.   An estimated seven million people gathered in plazas around the nation Tuesday night to watch the match on giant television screens.

7.   Bolivia, a landlocked country of an estimated seven million people in the heart of South America, desperately needs foreign investment to reduce poverty and create jobs.

8.   California, where an estimated four million people lost their power at least briefly, was the hardest hit.

9.   It sought, among other things, an injunction to stop sales of the painkiller now used by an estimated seven million people, mainly to relieve arthritis pain.

10.   Motorola said an estimated one million people will use its network, known as Code Division Multiple Access, over the next five years.