11.   First Call consensus estimates are used in all sorts of things you see in the media, such as price-earnings ratios and earnings-growth rates.

12.   Friday, Labor Department hands out the consumer price index for August while Commerce releases its first estimate of retail sales for August and July business inventories.

13.   More good news came as the Commerce Department released its first official estimate of electronic commerce retail sales, which had previously been included with overall sales.

14.   On Wednesday, the government is scheduled to make its first revised estimate of the gross domestic product for the third quarter.

15.   Staples lawyers argued that the first estimate was a quick set of figures developed in a two-week period.

16.   Statistics officials said more information on output from agriculture and the construction industry were the reason the first estimate was altered.

17.   That was the first estimate on the house I wanted to build.

18.   The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday issued its first estimate of productivity growth in this sector in the second quarter.

19.   The Commerce Department is due to release its first estimate of second-quarter gross domestic product Friday.

20.   The Commerce Department will issue in mid-February its first estimate of growth during the fourth quarter, as well as closing the books on the third-quarter results.