English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

a scrap of useful work here since he first got the job.
4 I’ve got 
loads of / masses of / dozens of papers I want to get rid of.
5 Alice invited 
masses of / dozens of / tons of people to her party at the weekend.
6 Yasmin’s got 
bags of / loads of / tons of energy – I don’t know where she gets it all from!
7 
Loads of / Dozens of / Masses of people were turned away because the lecture room was full.
8 She was told 
dozens of / masses of / umpteen times not to leave any valuables on her desk.
 82.5
1 company
2 included
3 gather
4 Incidentally
5 offence
6 mind
7 possible
Unit 83
 83.1 
Suggested answers:
1 The company will invest 
in excess of £10 million in new technology over the next five years.
2 It will cost you 
in the region of 
/
 around 
/
 about £10,000 to have the whole house redecorated.
3 Informal: It could take 
seven hours, give or take an hour 
/
 or so, to drive to Aberdeen, depending 
on the traffic.
Formal: It could take 
approximately seven hours to drive to Aberdeen, depending on the traffic.
4 
Quite a few students failed the exam. I was rather surprised and disappointed.
 83.2
1 Her hair’s a sort of reddish colour, and I’d say she’s, well, forty, forty-fourish.
Sort of
is used here with an adjective, but it can be used with almost any type of word. The 
-ish
suffix is used here with a descriptive adjective and a number denoting age, but it is also often 
used with clock times, e.g. We arrived around half-past sevenish. 
Well
is often used to make things 
less direct.
2 The garden was a bit on the big side, but it was very pretty.
The expression 
a bit on the
… 
side
is used with adjectives to denote a quality that is not what we 
want or hope for, e.g. The living room was a bit on the dark side, but we bought some new lamps 
and then it was OK.

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3 There was a kind of elasticky thing that held the two parts together, and I’ve lost it.
Kind of
and 
sort of
can both be used with adjectives and with almost any other word class. 
Putting the 
-y
suffix on a noun or adjective to make it indirect or less precise occurs in informal 
conversation, e.g. It was a browny colour with a kind of acidy taste.
4 They’re good shoes. They’re comfortable on long walks and that.
And that
just means ‘and similar things’. It is very informal. Here it is used with a noun, but people 
often use it with verbs too, e.g. They were singing and that at the party last night.
5 I’ve been to the doctor’s and had treatments and suchlike, and I’m sure it helps in one way or 
another.
And suchlike
normally follows a plural noun, but it could also be used with an uncountable one, 
e.g. It’ll be useful for your work and suchlike.