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or so

approximately We raised $500 or so for charity. Twenty people or so showed up for the lecture. We see each other once a month or so.

Usage notes: always follows a noun, often relating to a number: It was 90 or so miles to Albany.

or so

Approximately, especially alluding to a number, as in Four hundred or so guests are invited. [Late 1500s]