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Vladv Posted 4 years ago
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Some

The Southwestern Railroad, eighteen hundred miles long, mostly singletrack, and with some thirty thousand employees, ran from the Romanian border through Kishinev, Odessa, and Kiev to Gaevo.

Does some mean approximately or to stress the number? How to distinguish between the two? Thanks

  

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Vladv Does some mean approximately Yes. Vladv How to distinguish between the two? "Some" is not often used to stress things, and never with a number.

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VladvDoes some mean approximately

Yes.

VladvHow to distinguish between the two?

"Some" is not often used to stress things, and never with a number. I suppose you are thinking of "That's some horse.", meaning "That is a remarkable horse."

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