(1) Just as the speed cameras on the A66 hereabouts bring traffic to a momentary dawdle, so Sharp Edge and Foule Crag directly overhead arrest the progress of the faster hilltop climbers making their way up the mountain, the 700ft of Skiddaw slate knife-blade needing extra concentration and care when iced.
(2) When he puts the paper down, he will probably pick up the jumper that lies beside him and darn a hole made by one of the ravening hordes of clothes moths living hereabouts, none of which he can morally justify swatting.
(3) Perhaps they go to the pub to eat the same local turbot and drink the same contraband Hollands gin that Byron enjoyed hereabouts.
(4) So many hereabouts say they were surprised by a conservative thinktank's proposal to further economic development by turning Maine's poorest county into a gigantic tax-free zone.
Thereabouts
Definition:
(adv.) Near that place.
(adv.) Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.
(adv.) Concerning that; about that.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though they remained there or thereabouts for a few weeks, a 5-2 home defeat to Arsenal on 26 September was seen as the shape of things to come.
(2) Its continued existence seems like a minor miracle once you've read Rakoff's book, which is set in 1996, or thereabouts.
(3) The US still have question marks about some of the soft goals they can concede, and Gonzalez, for all his promise, tends to be there or thereabouts when crucial mistakes are happening.
(4) "[Police] were in Rebekah's office for two days, thereabouts, when there were three executives in there with them," he said.
(5) The overall loss of iron during the first twelve days or thereabouts is probably not sufficient to require nutritional supplements over this period.
(6) Simon Hopkinson first met Elizabeth David in 1984, or thereabouts, at Hilaire, the Chelsea restaurant of which he was chef.
(7) Beyond the political huffing and puffing, the debate about what Pfizer would have to pay to bag AstraZeneca always seemed straightforward: a bid of £60 a share or thereabouts would be a knockout; anything less and Pfizer would struggle to get an agreement.
(8) On the second leg of my south-north train journey, another 400 miles or thereabouts from London to Edinburgh, once again there was no missing the proliferation of Day-Glo yellow plantations.
(9) I was written about by the Guardian in 1993 or thereabouts,” she replies, “and it wasn’t a positive experience.” The phrase “character assassination” is mentioned.
(10) "3D printing in general has been around since 1986 or thereabouts," says Jake Durrant, senior lecturer at Ravensbourne digital design college.
(11) This approach of isotopic substitution on nitrogen or carbon atoms is of general utility and should allow virtually any proton on a protein of molecular weight 20 000 or thereabout to be selectively observed.
(12) I do need to make sure we are there or thereabouts and that is all I'm asking for," he said.
(13) This year, we will be there or thereabouts financially, but next year will be very challenging.
(14) I think once we get that, we will be there or thereabouts."
(15) I’ve always been there or thereabouts in the squad, but it’s been a big learning curve for myself over the last four or five years,” Hardaker said.
(16) I suggest the hypothesis that bancroftian filariasis, endemic since the early days of slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, disappeared around 1930 by virtue of the long-term effects of a municipal sewerage-water system begun in the 1890s or thereabouts.
(17) We've always been there or thereabouts but we've always had dips.
(18) "You don't really notice him much but he has always been there or thereabouts working his way to the top.
(19) "I can remember one or two in particular where there was no evidence at all against the defendant – the prosecutor couldn't point to anything other than he was there or thereabouts – and I bailed him.
(20) Always search for items under "Newly listed", not "Ending soonest", and try to check eBay with some frequency: bi-hourly, seven days a week or thereabouts.