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• Drake has been silent musically for the last month or so.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• Iran has used that threat to deter Israel for years, going back probably 20 years or so.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024
• On closer inspection, the researchers found that the two halves of the Franken-jelly showed spontaneous movements for the first hour or so after fusion.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
• The band sort of went to the wind, and there was no movement for at least a year or so.
  — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 28 Apr. 2023
• Look for them in the east in the hour or so before sunrise.
  — Doyle Rice, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2024
• Also, the current events in the last eight years or so.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
• An hour or so later, the Islands of the Sun and the Moon appeared.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Over the next dozen years or so, Elvis recorded some 240 songs here.
  — Pam Windsor, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• There was a fee of twenty dollars; the process should take a week or so.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• This should be a week in which Stevenson climbs 100 or so more yards up that list.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Curl toes and brace your deep core to lift knees to hover off ground just an inch or so.
  — Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The season for the very best asparagus doesn’t last long, just a month or so.
  — Kathleen Purvis, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The number of Christians in the U.S. has also declined sharply over the past decade or so.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• The long-term future extends, at most, six weeks or so.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Do apply up to five inches or so of mulch on top of the planting hole.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The story picks up a year or so later, with the Slough House staff still moldering.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Chen is one of a dozen or so witnesses that may be called by the plaintiff.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• More than two dozen upscale omakase bars have sprung up from downtown to the South Bay over the past decade or so.
  — Claire Wang, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
• In the past year or so, awareness among both customers and traders has increased.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
• On August 7, the father, then aged 71, left the home with Margo to check the mailbox down the street, or so his son thought.
  — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• Those storms could start by 5 p.m. or so and could last until midnight.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 29 Apr. 2023
• When a recipe simply hits all the right notes, any thought of altering it grinds to a halt for a good decade or so.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• Downtown Phoenix has changed a lot over the past century or so.
  — Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
• In the early days of the regime, half a dozen or so major consumer groups were willing to enter the fray.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• And that’s the sort of fundamental insight that came out of physics around about 1950 or so.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2024
• In the case of Mount Oglethorpe, eliminating the first three dozen or so miles made sense.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Meanwhile, the hope is that Jon Berti (calf) starts a rehab assignment in the next week or so.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
• There have been many one-of-a-kind historic events over the last two weeks or so, but arguably — arguably!
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
• The location will likely open in six months or so, Skizas said.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• That’s what happened to 400 or so of their colleagues on Thursday.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024