(somewhere) in the region of
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: close to (an amount) : about, approximately
He makes somewhere in the region of $100,000 a year.
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Still, analysts estimate that the company could probably stretch to a deal in the region of half a billion dollars should the right opportunity present itself.
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Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
Russia's government has also come up with a program in which female students aged 18 to 23 could be paid for having a child and financial incentives have already been put in place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Those chips would cost somewhere in the region of $1 billion.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
Manchester City have bolstered their attacking options by signing Egyptian forward Omar Marmoush from Eintracht Frankfurt for a fee in the region of €70million (£59m) to €75m, plus bonuses.
—Elias Burke, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
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Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
Russia's government has also come up with a program in which female students aged 18 to 23 could be paid for having a child and financial incentives have already been put in place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Those chips would cost somewhere in the region of $1 billion.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
Manchester City have bolstered their attacking options by signing Egyptian forward Omar Marmoush from Eintracht Frankfurt for a fee in the region of €70million (£59m) to €75m, plus bonuses.
—Elias Burke, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
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“(somewhere) in the region of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28somewhere%29%20in%20the%20region%20of. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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