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The word sorezore, however, has a distributive rather than
a non-specific meaning: ‘severally, respectively.’ Here are a
few examples of the use of these words.
Dokodoko no daredare ga sō itta toka itte imashita.
He was saying so-and-so in somewhere or other
said that or something like that.
Arekore kangaete iru uchi ni iya ni narimashita.
While I was thinking about this or that, I started
to hate (the idea).
Kono taipu no kuruma wa Nihon de mo achirakochira de
mikakerareru yō ni narimashita.
We started to see this type of car here and
there, even in Japan.
Kono kaisha de wa karekore sanjū-nen ni narimasu.
In this company I have been working about
thirty years.
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