Then we climbed out of that hole, got to the plus side by about 100 points, thereabouts.
Core inflation, which excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, has been 2.4% or thereabouts for several months.
It seemed only fair for Cooke, who also won stage two, and was there or thereabouts for the sprints throughout the race.
In the event, average growth in the euro-zone was there or thereabouts.
Only time will tell, but they've got the strength in depth, the experience and the winning habit, so they'll be there or thereabouts.
Thereabouts, on clear nights, they will see a comet known as Ikeya-Zhang, after its co-discoverers, Kaoru Ikeya, of Japan, and Zhang Daqing, of China.
All of them, more or less warmly dressed, captured by the camera at that moment in 1977 or thereabouts, are friends, and some of them are lovers, too.
The second oddity is that in 1990, or thereabouts, a single Cape bee hatched with a handful of mutations that made her eggs smell like those of African-honeybee queens.
Since then, though, Makinen, arguably the finest rally driver in the world, has been there or thereabouts, but not really a feature in the thick of the championship battle.
My rough calculation of the chance that a single vote cast in New York will decide the presidency is 1 in 10 raised to the power 61, 000, or thereabouts.
Italian pair Loris Capirossi and Marco Melandri will be there or thereabouts, however I have a suspicion that Stoner might get the better of his new team-mate at Ducati, Capirossi.
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"It's early days but we really want to be up there - we had such a poor season last year and really want to be there or thereabouts, " Lindgren said.
The film is due to be shown in July or thereabouts, and the moguls seem confident that it will be successful, commercially and critically, as most Kubrick films have been.
Jones also points out that, by way of compensation, Kent have provided a steady supply line to the England set-up - five or six of the current squad are there or thereabouts.
After a further 30 to 40 years, or somewhere thereabouts, cash will be eliminated from our economy after the nation has had a plethora of free and wide-ranging debates about this issue.
That will help the prime minister go out on a high next May (or thereabouts) and offer Mr Brown the chance to lead a stable government that knows where it is going.
From the end of the Second World War until 1980 or thereabouts, people working in finance earned about the same, on average and taking account of their qualifications, as people in other industries.
There is a long list of possibles: Kevin Brennan, Chris Bryant, Huw Irranca Davies, Nia Griffith are all on it and were all there or thereabouts in the early twitter action from Westminster.
"Ten to two or thereabouts, my mobile phone rang and I looked at it and it said private number and I went ignore because I thought it was some cold caller, " he said.
In 1960, or thereabouts, I went with my parents and sister to the Rep's Christmas pantomime, where the male lead was played by a young, charismatic actor, who was diabolically dressed all in black.
After Qom, Iran appeared to back off a bit by agreeing in principle to ship abroad much of its uranium stock (a bomb's worth or thereabouts if sufficiently re-enriched) for reworking to provide the needed reactor fuel.
Twenty years ago, or thereabouts, young Arabs in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), for example, would find it easier to go into a role with government where life was not entirely strenuous and where they could get good money.
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And it's just going to take some more time, and that's why I think General Petraeus basically decided that September would be a good time, early September, thereabouts, a good time for him to do his report for the president.
I'm not pinning all my hopes on First Minister's Questions - oh no I'm not - but tune in to Today on Radio 4 at 8.30am or thereabouts to hear the First Minister facing up to 2013, happy or otherwise.
At his best he's a very destructive forward, and if Flutey finds some of the form he showed for Wasps in his previous spell then they'll be there or thereabouts, but I don't think it's going to be an easy season for them.
This one's for all of you Meizu fanboys out there: To tide you over while you wait for the M8 3G launch in March 2010 (with a possible M8 3G S planned for Smarch 2043 or thereabouts) the company's announced that the handset will be getting a UI refresh with its firmware 1.0 release come August.
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