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• 1In or very near a particular place or position.

  ‘If he does make it, he will be there or thereabouts, but nowhere near his peak.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘We're near the top and we have to stay there or thereabouts.’
  • ‘I was there or thereabouts for a few years, and there's not much between being in an international squad and getting a cap.’
  • ‘There were only two points in it and I knew that if we got two scores we would be there or thereabouts.’
  • ‘Having been there or thereabouts, I'd love to think I could now establish myself.’

  1. 1.1Approximately.
     ‘forty years, there or thereabouts, had elapsed’
     More example sentences

     • ‘I would say about 10 per cent, there or thereabouts.’
     • ‘It's 90 days there or thereabouts to the start of the Premiership.’
     • ‘Forty five minutes (there or thereabouts) is the perfect length for an album!’