Given a sequence of linear forms Rn = Pn;1 ¬ 1 + ¢ ¢ ¢ + Pn;m ¬ m ; Pn;1 ; : : : ; Pn;m 2 K; n 2 N; in m > 2 complex or p-adic numbers ¬ 1 ; : : : ; ¬ m 2 Kv with appropriate growth conditions, Nesterenko proved a lower bound for the dimension d of the vector space K¬ 1 + ¢ ¢ ¢ + K¬ m over K, when K = Q and v is the in¯nite place. We shall generalize Nesterenko' s dimension estimate over number¯elds K with appropriate places v, if the lower bound condition for jRn j is replaced by the determinant condition. For the q-series approximations also a linear independence measure is given for the d linearly independent numbers. As an application we prove that the initial values F (t); F (qt); : : : ; F (q m ¡ 1 t) of the linear homogeneous q-functional equationwhere N = N (q; t), Pi = Pi (q; t) 2 K[q; t] (i = 1; : : : ; m), generate a vector space of dimension d > 2 over K under some conditions for the coe± cient polynomials, the solution F (t) and t; q 2 K ¤ .