Sentence examples for thereabouts from inspiring English sources

I'm talking about those curvy shift dresses, knee-length or thereabouts, maybe in a jewel colour that nods to Roland Mouret, that you wear to work drinks.

His side finished last season on the verge of the play-offs and should be thereabouts again, Jordan Rhodes' new contract ensuring that goals won't be scarce and earnest backup having been added in Chris Brown and Luke Varney.

The occasion was a gathering organised by some peace-loving foundation whose name I forget (my records are in store at present), held in 1948 or thereabouts, in the still roofless hall of Westminster School, of which I was then a pupil.

Just how stingy it is emerges from a report this week from the OECD: the promise made to today's young workers is the least generous in the developed world.Monika Queisser and Edward Whitehouse, the report's authors, estimate what those who are young today will get from the state and compulsory private-pension schemes when they hang up their boots in 2050 or thereabouts.

The worries have centred on the $300 billion or thereabouts that telecoms firms have had to or will have to fork out on buying third-generation licences and on building the infrastructure.

Some 34% of CCC issues will default within their first year, according to historic studies by Standard & Poor's, more than half will have done so within three years, and 70% or thereabouts within eight.

Most acutely, perhaps, he represents a mid-ranking power with a strictly limited ability to influence events far from home.Somewhere high over Italy or thereabouts, Mr Cameron popped back to see the travelling press, and to set out his views of what Britain can and should do amid these fast-moving events.

This alternative assumption raises the gains from free trade in goods by $174 billion (or thereabouts).These rival assumptions are not right or wrong, but they illustrate how far the results of CGE models flow from the presuppositions of their authors.

A recent rule change means that the Bank of Japan is allowed to buy another $600 billion or thereabouts of foreign currency.

But according to Messrs Massey and Thaler, it is not the first pick, but the 43rd pick, or thereabouts, who typically offers the best value.

In the event, average growth in the euro-zone was there or thereabouts.