Even allowing for the usual information gaps, that's about five thousand planets-full of data, at a minimum estimate.

Almost all the crew - about eighty-five per cent, by his minimum estimate - had worked out some sort of emotional accommodation.

This gave a minimum estimate for their power, which fitted with the numbers that Idorf had supplied.

The minimum estimate by Westerners is 400,000, the maximum 1.5 million.

The lot was withdrawn when bids did not reach the eight-guinea ($50) minimum estimate.

The minimum estimate of the number of species that inhabit tropical forests is two million.

Bidding for the work reached $550,000, well below the minimum estimate of $900,000.

"That was my minimum estimate," she said, seeing frown lines crease back into the doctor's thin face.

"And I'd say that what you've got is very much a minimum estimate."

Such counts do not consider undocumented violence and must be regarded as minimum estimates.