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  • r  near that time or date
    come at noon or thereabouts
  • r  near that place
    he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks

  • Sirs: As a subscriber to PTI since the beginning of PTI or thereabout, I want you to carry on a very special little investigation for me.
  • Great Britain's 105 units has amounted to $450,000, or thereabout, annually, but frugal France contributes only 79 units, as does Germany, while other great powers, Japan and .
  • The year was 1908 or thereabout.
Quotes

  • Karl Rove in Boston Globe (registration)
    I called him, he's a personal friend, and I called him Tuesday afternoon, five o'clock thereabout, and wished him well on his election that night,Rove told reporters traveling with the president to Wisconsin. "It was a personal call."
  • Margaret Chan in PhysOrg.com
    From experience we do know that what we call the attack rate of a new pandemic would range -- based on past experience it does not necessarily apply for the next pandemic -- (to) roughly 20 percent or thereabout,Chan told journalists.
  • Olusegun Obasanjo in Nigerian Tribune
    Looking straight into Governor Yar'Adua's eyes, President Obasanjo asked him: "Umaru, was your sickness healed? Was it in 2001 or thereabout?"

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