1.   Spitfire restorations to airworthy status have notoriously exceeded initial estimates of timing and cost, irrespective of start point condition.

2.   Initial estimates that it would take at least two years to extinguish all the fires proved pessimistic as the teams rapidly gained experience in the task.

3.   The initial estimate was based partly on the time required for radioactive heating to cause the subducted oceanic crust and sediment to become buoyant and rise.

4.   Initial estimates that it would take at least two years to kill all the fires proved pessimistic as the teams rapidly gained experience in the task.

5.   Analysts said they were not surprised that as time passed the company was finding that its initial estimates might need some tuning.

6.   And it is also possible that the impact from Asia will be more than the initial estimates.

7.   And while initial estimates predicted that thousands could have been infected, seven elderly people died.

8.   Another economic indicator arrives Friday, when the Commerce Department reports its initial estimate of fourth-quarter economic growth.

9.   But even though osmium is much softer than diamond, initial estimates of its bulk modulus indicated a similar value to that of diamond.

10.   But even in the absence of a complete study, it has become clear that the initial estimates of the dead were not supported by a count of bodies.