Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - somewhere

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. You use somewhere to refer to a place without saying exactly where you mean. I’ve got a feeling I’ve seen him before somewhere... I’m not going home yet. I have to go somewhere else first... ‘Perhaps we can talk somewhere privately,’ said Kesler... Somewhere in Ian’s room were some of the letters that she had sent him... I needed somewhere to live in London. ADV: ADV after v, ADV with be, oft ADV cl/group, from ADV 2. You use somewhere when giving an approximate amount, number, or time. Caray is somewhere between 73 and 80 years of age... The W.H.O. safety standard for ozone levels is somewhere about a hundred... ADV: ADV prep 3. If you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress towards achieving something. At last they were agreeing, at last they were getting somewhere... PHRASE: V inflects