Or consider the case of a manufacturing firm that builds a new plant with an estimated life of 30 years, only to learn a year later that the widgets the plant was built to produce have become obsolete.
But the problem is that the accountant's definition of the estimated useful life of an asset can be very different from an investor's definition.
The nuclear wastes have an estimated dangerous radioactive life of up to 240, 000 years.
NOOKcolor weighs about a pound and its battery life is estimated at about 8 hours between charges.
The MeMO Pad is powered by a 1GHz VIA WM8950 CPU and a Mali-400 GPU. ASUS brings a 4270mAh battery to the party with an estimated 7 hours of battery life, and 1GB of RAM.
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Everything else about the iPad announced Tuesday is the same as the current fourth-generation models: a 9.7-inch Retina display, a dual-core A6X processor, a FaceTime HD camera, 2 gigabtyes of RAM and an estimated 10 hours of battery life.
For example, in its fourth amended registration statement, filed with the SEC in October of 2011, Zynga noted that during the first half of last year it estimated the blended average paying player life for a game as 15 months, down from 19 months a year earlier.
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The BBA was first estimated to extend the Medicare Trust Fund's solvency through 2017, but by the end of the Clinton Administration, the savings in the BBA were re-estimated and found to have extended the life of the Trust Fund to 2029.
By studying waves from galaxies that have taken millions of years to reach earth, the telescope could also shed new light on how the universe was shaped in the aftermath of the Big Bang by enabling astronomers to observe events just 300 million years into the estimated 13.7 billion-year life of the universe.
The repair works, which are expected to start on 1 January, will take an estimated 20 weeks to complete and have a life expectancy of 120 years.
Brothers Zach, age about 4 and Philip, about a year older, have found a loving family in the U.S. but their early life was typical of Uganda's estimated 2.4 million orphans.
Although battery life is hard to determine, a Sharp representative estimated 30 hours if sending and receiving messages two times per day.
Around the world the inshore regions of our seas are estimated to have on average held 10 times the amount of life two or three hundred years ago than they do today.
According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Egypt's population as of 2010 included an estimated 77 million Muslims and 4 million Coptic Christians.
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Life Technologies, formed by the merger last year of life science tools companies Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, has an estimated 65% of the market for PCR machines used for research and has licensed its technology to 12 other companies making the machines.
His arrest means the breakaway Mormon sect, which has an estimated 10, 000 members, must face the prospect of having its way of life examined in court.
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Like an estimated 3, 647 ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Kadorian's father bought a life insurance policy from New York Life Insurance Co.
When you're in the heart of Saudi Arabia running around managing logistics to cover an estimated influx of two million pilgrims from around the world, it's easy to forget life back home.
The ultimate goal is to empower blind consumers to create their own low-cost and potentially life-saving tools -- particularly in developing countries, which account for an estimated 90 percent of the world's blind population.
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