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- adverb obsolete
about then
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Examples
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It was my mum who proposed the relevant motion at conference in 1996 or thenabouts.
A right Royal stimulus Jeff 2009
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Even though it's northern California, it's still going to be better than the Days of Greige due hereabouts thenabouts.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005
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He must have died before Queen Anne was born -- well, not so far back as that maybe, but then or thenabouts.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Then, or thenabouts, a cavalier coming by the mountain road will tie his horse to a tree beyond the bridge that spans the ravine.
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What a momentous out-of-wedlock conjugation theirs had been on 15 July 1451 or thenabouts, in the heat of the day or the cool of the evening, in a meadow of wild flowers, a hayloft, or up against the cowshed wall.
Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011
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So after Monday or thenabouts, I'm back in business, with the tool I need to realize my modest ambition of Understanding Everything, and then Ruling Planet Earth Benevolently.
Vleeptron_Z 2009
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Earlier this year, somewhen back in february or thenabouts, someone tried to work out the diagrams.
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