guess-timate

It would be interesting to guess-timate what the postal vote numbers should be.

Glasgow North East - The Waiting Game Jeff 2009

How, of the many things I would say in front of the class, I would guess-timate that students remember about 10% of it.

Archive 2008-05-01 Annette 2008

Now I know that it's all just a vague "guess-timate"; they know their routes well-enough to make an assumption of how many kilometers certain points on their route are relative to where they've been.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

WOLF: My guess-timate would have been about here, I'd say anywhere from maybe three to four feet, wasn't quite as high but you know, you got to think about that too, three or four feet, doesn't seem high, but that's devastating to a lot of people.

CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2008 2008

Now I know that it's all just a vague "guess-timate"; they know their routes well-enough to make an assumption of how many kilometers certain points on their route are relative to where they've been.

The Lady Who Wouldn't Take My Fare 2008

UPDATE: I'm told from a source who would know that CNN employees have been told not to estimate (i.e., guess-timate) the number of dead, bur rather rely on good sources.

09/06/2005 2005

I don't just want to know that so-and-so has a large database, I want a guess-timate as to how large it is and how it compares to what the NSA is doing with the phone companies - number of entries, variables, etc.

05/11/2006 2006

"They only went to about 800 out of 6,000 areas in the city that homeless are known to congregate (sic), and they do a statistical guess-timate to those areas that no one has been to," Markee said. (link) I've always thought the "soup kitchen method" of counting the number of homeless was a grossly unreliable method.

From On High 2005

See if you can guess-timate without a calculator, and I'll post the answer a little later if no one gets it.

Marshall Democrat-News Headlines 2009

From what I've seen, I'd guess-timate that Palin has responded to about 25 questions in her three major televised interviews and another 25 unscripted questions on the campaign trail.

The Chief Source Photography 2008