Sentence examples for received something like from inspiring English sources

Between mid-October and early November, prospective voters in Levdansky's district, south of Pittsburgh, received something like two dozen pieces of negative mail.

I read that you received something like 24 pairs of shoes at your baby shower.

At first I was a little shocked but then I told my daughter that they'd received something like 160 entries.

Well, in the last four-month reading period, we received something like 10,000 submissions, 10,000 batches of things.

The extended Brophy family has received something like a million dollars in subsidies in that time to work their land, according to the database.

'Even if they are given a job description they will sign for them but later they will deny ever having received something like that…… job description cannot improve a person's behaviour '. (Senior manager).

As its inventor, he will likely receive something like ten per cent of wholesale revenues, so if his product manages to siphon off, say, fifty per cent of his competitor's market he stands to earn around three-quarters of a million dollars a year.

We usually receive something like 10-20 queveryns every day.

Just when I think it's vainglorious to worry about overexposure, I receive something like reinforcement.

The average employee now-adays receives something like 100 email messages a day and coping with that deluge has become one of the challenges of a working life.

Children would see names like "Were I an Elephant," adolescents would receive something like "A Time Machine for an Hour," and adults would tackle topics such as "The World from an Insect's Point of View".