He stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Come at noon or thereabouts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
My beloved electric kettle, which ladegard gave me in 1995 or thereabouts, is on its last legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Mount Snuffleupagus] Reference
This week, or thereabouts, is the UK paperback debut of The Herring Seller's Apprentice, by L.C. Tyler. From Wordnik.com. [Reading] Reference
George as he knew of the "great house," as it was called thereabouts, that is to say he had seen him once or twice -- in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
Our MCI phone service handles 70 million calls thereabouts every weekend alone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2002] Reference
"Because I've a call thereabouts myself to-day, an 'if you vas minded to go along, I'd be honoured, sir, honoured.". From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
This one with the suede thong retails in KL for RM318 or thereabouts which is MUCH more expensive. From Wordnik.com. [My Women Stuff] Reference
"The people thereabouts call them Gumaer's Falls.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
'I was a lad of twelve or thereabouts, on my first voyage. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
But it's been 2 million or thereabouts for the last 10 years. From Wordnik.com. [BBC storm over pay and pensions threatens Proms] Reference
Leicester was seen thereabouts as well as my Thomas Leicester. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Railway, two hundred miles, or thereabouts, southwest of Savannah. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
In the year 1746, or thereabouts, one Christopher Lovel, a native of. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
I thought the last casual observer was seen around 1945, or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [An Ancient Symbol for Fire] Reference
Or thereabouts. less than a minute ago via EchofonStewart Cink stewartcink. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Gray not to blame as PGA Championship begins after fog delay] Reference
On Tuesday or Wednesday, or thereabouts, the engineers will try the static kill. From Wordnik.com. [Worst environmental disaster in U.S. history?] Reference
Four have the hours between seven and eight o'clock in the evening or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The country thereabouts was very poor, but the inhabitants mostly remained at home. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He was born in 1718, or thereabouts, and in 1745 he made 88 for England against Kent. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
"About the same date as the 'Proceedings,' or thereabouts?" he remarked interrogatively. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
If he stays fit, and performs as he did last season, United will be there or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Premier League preview No13: Manchester United] Reference
Slone did not expect the horse to go far, considering that the grass thereabouts was good. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
The man who entered was about fifty years of age, or thereabouts, grey-haired, clean-shaven. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Amongst the three professional nurses I remember a tall, handsome girl of 22 or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
One wore a Grand Army badge and the other was a young fellow of twenty-three or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The invention which led to such an economy of time was only introduced in 1860 or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
I met with no disturbance of the kind, and slept soundly enough till six o'clock or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
He left one child -- a boy of fourteen, or thereabouts -- for whose welfare he was much distressed. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
At 2: 24 p.m. or thereabouts on Tuesday, the NHL sent out a press release about the league's "hottest rivalry.". From Wordnik.com. [Max Talbot calls Alex Ovechkin a bad word] Reference
Palermo and Napoli will also be thereabouts, but unlike Genoa also have Europa League campaigns to worry about. From Wordnik.com. [Serie A 2010-11 season preview] Reference
When he straightens up -- and he generally straightens when up at all -- he is five feet eleven, or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
The man had not been far out in his reckoning when he opined that his master had walked "twenty miles or thereabouts.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
But funniest of all was the caravan -- she couldn't remember where, in Natal or thereabouts -- wagons with ten yoke of oxen. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
It naturally occurs in infants under thirty months, or thereabouts, and in the very old, and in connection with various diseases. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
It was of a vast extent, and then were no roads thereabouts, so that men were guided only by the stars in travelling in those parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The red obtained from this substance created a great deal of interest among printers and dyers on its introduction in 1857, or thereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
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