más o menos

más o menos

more or less

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= more or less, of a sort, or so, of sorts, after a fashion, round about, roughly speaking, give or take, ballpark

Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.

Ex. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by a keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.

Ex. For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.

Ex. In summary, accountability has been perceived by some as a threat of sorts.

Ex. Koenig had a flat-platen machine working after a fashion in 1811, and a prototype cylinder machine in 1812 = Koenig ya en 1811 tenía una máquina de presión plana que más o menos funcionaba y un prototipo de máquina rotativa en 1812.

Ex. Estimates of the books currently in print in Britain usually give a number of round about a quarter of a million titles.

Ex. Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.

Ex. President Bush estimated the Iraqi civilian death toll at 30,000; give or take a few thousand.

Ex. In hindsight about 350k dollars (ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.

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= more or less, of a sort, or so, of sorts, after a fashion, round about, roughly speaking, give or take, ballpark

Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.

Ex: True, the machine is sometimes controlled by a keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.

Ex: For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.

Ex: In summary, accountability has been perceived by some as a threat of sorts.

Ex: Koenig had a flat-platen machine working after a fashion in 1811, and a prototype cylinder machine in 1812 = Koenig ya en 1811 tenía una máquina de presión plana que más o menos funcionaba y un prototipo de máquina rotativa en 1812.

Ex: Estimates of the books currently in print in Britain usually give a number of round about a quarter of a million titles.

Ex: Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.

Ex: President Bush estimated the Iraqi civilian death toll at 30,000; give or take a few thousand.

Ex: In hindsight about 350k dollars (ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.