| 单词 | in the neighbourhood of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the neighbourhood of b. in the neighbourhood of: (modifying a numerical quantity) somewhere about, somewhere close to; approximately. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > approximately (an amount) [phrase] plus minus1611 or soa1616 a matter of1645 there or (and) thereaboutsa1696 the matter of1829 somewhere about1846 in the neighbourhood of1847 in the region of1865 of the order of1903 give or take1958 not unadjacent to1966 1847 S. C. Reid Scouting Exped. McCulloch's Texas Rangers vi. 54 As the number of inhabitants is put down at 3000, I should think that by multiplying them by 750..you might get somewhere in the neighbourhood of the number of dogs. 1854 in G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 100 I have about in the neighbourhood of 40 packed bales of Cotton. 1893 Times (Weekly ed.) 15 Dec. 1000/2 The rate of exchange with India has been maintained in the neighbourhood of 16d. 1905 A. Adams Outlet 310 It was in the neighborhood of ninety miles across to the mouth of the Yellowstone. 1990 Guns & Weapons Sept. 16/3 Today those magazines run in the neighbourhood of $75 to $100 apiece when they can be located. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 19/2 We hear the figure is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 billion. < as lemmas |
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