thereabout

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It’s a comprehensive package of reforms, and there will be more reforms in the future, considering every score of years or thereabout federal lawmakers push some comprehensive package to sway activists and lobbyists.

From Washington Times

This Temple house, still called the Old Temple in the reign of Henry V., had been abandoned by the brethren in the year 1184, or thereabout.

From Project Gutenberg

Let it be made a place the thought of which will forever impart a full measure of good cheer, of contentment, and of honest courage to the mind of every member of the society thereabout.

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The Boy is the typical roguish, rather fresh, "newsy" of fifteen, or thereabout.

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Many editions, very easily obtained, a well-known girls story of the 1880s or thereabout, dealing with Ellen, an orphan of twelve.

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