give or take in English

more or less, approximately, thereabout

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1. Give or take a couple dozen.

2. Give or take a touch of infanticide.

3. Give or take a few years, they are contemporaries.

4. A Couple of days, meaning two days, give or take some hours; a Couple of weeks meaning two weeks, give or take a few days

5. Up, down, give or take a year and you're in Venice.

6. It'll take about three weeks, give or take a day or so.

7. Avebury is approximately 2 hours from London give or take the driving conditions

8. When the air pocket reaches your heart in, give or take, fifteen seconds, you'll die.

9. About eighteen ethnic groups, give or take a few, in the area of Zambia, make up the Bemba-speaking peoples

10. The ceramic fragments have been dated (with the admittedly inexact methods available) at 1410 before our Common Era, give or take 40 years —not at all far from 1473 B.C.E., the date for the battle of Jericho derived from the Bible.

11. The Carboniferous time period (the name is derived from the Latin word Carbo that is a form of the Latin word Carbonis - coal) was the fifth time period of the Palaeozoic.It was situated between the Devonian and the Permian, and lasted from 354 to 290 MYA - roughly for 60 million years, give or take 10 million years at each end.