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  • I thought it was _____ strange that the restaurant didn't have our reservation.
    kind of
    roughly
    more or less
    something
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  • Correct it! They bought a car that's a sort a yellow colour
    sort of
  •  15
  • I have 22 notifications on Facebook. I have ____ notifications on Facebook.
    just over 20
    approximately 22
    nearly 20
    22 or so
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  • Choose the expression that means the same: *A man I don't know* keeps sending me contact requests on LinkedIn.
    some friend
    That guy
    some colleague
    some guy
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  • David gets ______ ten text messages a day from a gym he's not even interested in joining.
    a liitle over
    as little as
    as many as
    kind of
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  • My friends Jeremy gets *no more than* five or ten emails a day.
    as few as
    as much as
    just over
    nearly
  •  10
  • Correct the mistake:We have 600 employees, and thereabouts.
    or thereabouts
  •  20
  • He was reading ______ or other about management, but it didn't help.
    that book
    a sort of book
    some book stuff
    some sort of book
  •  20
  • Rewrite the sentence: The trip took five hours and 55 minutes.
    The trip took a little under 6 hours
    The trip took as little as 6 hours
    The trip took sort of 6 hours
    The trip took almost of six hours
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  • Correct the mistake:You can rent a room here for as few as £500 per month.
    as little as
  •  10
  • Choose the expression that means the same: We need *98* chairs for the presentation.
    A hundred-odd
    98-odd
    a little before 100
    almost of 100
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  • Yusuf says that 78 per cent of his email is junk mail. That's ______ three quarters!
    as much as
    more than
    kind of
    a little under
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  • We arrived at 6:05.
    six or so
    nearly 6pm
    a little over 6pm
    at least 6pm
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  • We met at a pizza restaurant, but I've forgotten its name.
    We met at some pizza restaurant.
    We met at a kind pizza restaurant.
    We met roughly at a pizza restaurant.
    We met at a pizza-ish restaurant.
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  • We expect 205 people at the conference.
    200 or thereabouts people
    200 thereabouts people
    200 people or thereabouts
    abouts 200 people or so
  •  10
  • a: Was the factory tour interesting? b: It was actually____ frustrating because I couldn't hear the guide.
    kind of
    more or less
    little
    nearly
  •  10