in the neighborhood of something

neighborhood | American Dictionary

neighborhood
noun[ C ]
(CdnBrneighbourhood)us/ˈneɪ·bərˌhʊd/
an area with characteristics that make it different from other areas, or the people who live in a particular area:
This is a nice, quiet neighborhood, with modest single-family homes.
the approximate amount of something:
We hope to get something in the neighborhood of (= a price that is close to)$200,000 for our house.

Examples of neighborhood

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Families were recruited through postcards sent to several local neighborhoods, flyers, booths at community functions, and referrals from other participants.
As noted earlier, defining neighborhoods or examining neighborhood character is not as straightforward a task as it may seem.
An adequate margin policy fairly prices the exchange performance guarantee within an (economically insignificant) neighborhood.
First consider economies whose neighborhood size and structure are fixed.
These two economies were not subject to any real shocks, and there were no stationary periodic equilibria in the neighborhood of the steady state.
Many of these were envisioned as artistic undertakings that would ameliorate the urban environment, such as improving water supplies or cleaning up decayed neighborhoods.
Each cell interacts with a finite number of other cells, that is, those belonging to a user-defined neighborhood.
This operational definition of neighborhood social context does not equate a neighborhood with a cohesive community of friends and acquaintances.
The current findings suggest that neighborhood density may play a lesser role when learning high frequency or long words.
In other cases, older villages and neighborhoods were appropriated to make way for this influx of refugees.
Thus, further examination of the developmental trajectory of the influence of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning is warranted.
The impact of after-school peer contact on early adolescent externalizing problems is moderated by parental monitoring, neighborhood safety, and prior adjustment.
She was taken in and raised by a caring woman in the neighborhood, who never sent her to school.
Second, spatially referenced data may be limited in scope; it may not necessarily provide meaningful information concerning the ecological contexts of neighborhoods.
He explains that recent changes have drawbacks-from water shortage to the restructuring of family units to the breakup of neighborhood communities.
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