Hardly
Somewhere
Somewhere adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Usage example: somewhere around 15,000 people live in town
Both words in one sentence
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Zevran is somewhere between this and a Stepford Smiler - he acts like The Gadfly to cope with having hardly any agency in his entire life thus far.
Source: Sad Clown -
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The Cobblepots hardly liked having a deformed son in the first place, but it wasn't until Oswald dragged the family cat into his "crib" and implicitly killed it with his bare hands — at the age of somewhere between one and three years old!
Source: Film / Batman Returns -
Proven to be one of the most reliable and durable transport helicopters around, there's hardly any depiction of a modern war involving the US military that doesn't have a Black Hawk prominently featured somewhere.
Source: Useful Notes / Yanks with Tanks
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