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adjective
1.
Quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity.  "Some roses were still blooming" , "Having some friends over" , "Some apples" , "Some paper"
2.
Relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent.  "He was still some distance away"
3.
Relatively many but unspecified in number.  "We did not meet again for some years"
4.
Remarkable.  "She is some skier"
adverb
1.
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.  Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly.  "In just about a minute" , "He's about 30 years old" , "I've had about all I can stand" , "We meet about once a month" , "Some forty people came" , "Weighs around a hundred pounds" , "Roughly $3,000" , "Holds 3 gallons, more or less" , "20 or so people were at the party"



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... time, I could have made arrangements. Some one else could have gone. As it is—" He broke off suddenly, and bending toward her cried: "Sylvia, say that I ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason

... a family ring which a gentleman begged very hard for, whereupon by his earnest application he gave it back, and the man assured him he would never appear against him. He was a man of honour, for he happened to meet him some time after at the Rummer and Horseshoe in Drury Lane, where he treated Doyle handsomely, and showed him the ring, and withal declared that he would not be his enemy on any ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward

... the opposite sides may be unequal. The ends are then cut at an angle of thirty-seven degrees; if cut at a greater angle, the cross-joint will be too short, and if at a smaller, the leather will be wasted. This must, however, be regulated in some degree by the number of holes in the cross-joint, as the angle must be altered a little if the holes at that part do not fit exactly with the holes ...
— Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction • James Braidwood

... tone of reproof, "your notions of gentlemen's conduct is so disgusting, that I can't help despising you, and giving the honour of my birth to some other individual. No son of your's could be elevated in his ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various

... At the council, after some conversation upon our present move, Brigham proposed to appoint a committee of men, against whom no charges could be brought, to return to Nauvoo and attend to selling the property of the Saints, and see to fitting out the people and starting them forward. He proposed ...
— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee


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