getting on for

getting on for chiefly Brit. approaching (a specified time, age, or amount); almost 〈主英〉接近（某个时刻、年龄或数目）; 几乎： there are getting on for 700 staff. 员工人数快接近700人了。

• ganefs
• white admiral
• avocadoes
• gigacycle
• predominator
• two-headed / three-headed etc
• task-oriented leadership
• in lockstep
• light-o'-loves
• ergoted
• antrum of Willis
• hazel sandstone
• take sb/sth for granted
• counterfactual
• fandemonium
• ceramic microphone
• smooth-talk
• loan form
• inform sb of
• chromomeric
• condensabilities
• air horns
• average ... out
• enterogastrones
• in marriage
• zeotropes
• Ken.
• up north
• directed number
• lunch-bucket
• B.Litt
• the white rose of innocence/virginity
• ultramicrochemists
• salt flats
• clerk
• basket coil
• lithotypes
• press campaign
• lay something at someone's door
• campaniform receptors
• instil(l)
• terato-
• containerize
• Gallionella
• boron tribromide
• clamp
• late greeks
• full dresses
• cheapnesses
• San Quentin quail
• parallel ripple mark
• dentalised
• carbon tetrafluoride
• impression
• hyperbola
• not bat an eyelid
• FAX transmitter
• short-spoken
• callows
• discogastrula
• indochinas
• nereider
• primary radar
• popguns
• sheet band
• spiffing
• salve
• ketone bodies
• monoses
• aphaniphyric
• doliner
• more kicks than ha'pence
• breakaway action
• take ill
• hem out
• wall charts
• stanford-binet tests
• handprints
• open
• water bomb
• stand on
• nurs
• Dodonaean
• basuco
• regularisation
• garrets
• have one's fill of
• cornstarch
• bring to trial
• agincourts
• balanced stock
• denar
• tubulate
• ripplier
• knucklehead
• hippiedom
• aerobicizes
• membrum virile
• sweet chestnut
• Thomson,Sir George Paget