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It is perhaps not a good idea for a seven-year-old to use a calculator. There were perhaps a dozen women in the audience. Cook the potatoes until they are tender — perhaps 15 minutes. Perhaps we could all go out and have a meal sometime? Perhaps you can explain what went wrong? Perhaps it would be better for his party if he resigned. His latest novel is perhaps his best. Definition and synonyms of perhaps from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Education. Down , downwards or downward?

During or for? Each or every? East or eastern ; north or northern? Economic or economical? Efficient or effective? Elder , eldest or older , oldest? End or finish? Especially or specially? Except or except for? Expect , hope or wait?

Experience or experiment? Fall or fall down? Far or a long way? Farther , farthest or further , furthest? Fast , quick or quickly? Fell or felt? Female or feminine ; male or masculine? Finally , at last , lastly or in the end? First , firstly or at first? Fit or suit?

Following or the following? For or since? Forget or leave? Full or filled? Fun or funny? Get or go? Grateful or thankful? Hear or listen to? High or tall? Historic or historical? House or home? How is …? If or when? If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie? Lend or borrow? Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch?

Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be? Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 10 years, 9 months ago. Active 5 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 72k times. Improve this question. Jon Purdy Jon Purdy Hence I did not post it as an answer — mplungjan. Mayhap , riddled the Riddler. The title: "versus" — only on english. Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. The differences between perhaps and maybe are the following: Maybe is used as a noun, in phrases like no ifs, buts, or maybes.

Perhaps is used in polite requests: would you perhaps consent to act as our guide? Improve this answer. Jim How can this thing be meaningful? And one more thing, what is "set phrase"? A set phrase is "an unvarying phrase having a specific meaning, such as raining cats and dogs , or being the only context in which a word appears, e.

Add a comment. If Seymour wants a job at Bird Song cleaning out toilets, perhaps when he loses this election, he should come by. Perhaps the weekend respite from the jury box had lessened Fred's apprehension.

One logical candidate was the offspring of Edith Plotke and Josh Mulligan: someone forty years old, perhaps a red head. Perhaps it is time to visit Ms Larkin again. Perhaps we're too nice to take him on at his own level. Paul was about to fire him, and perhaps more. Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old. Perhaps we could arrange to meet and discuss this matter. Perhaps if they learned further details from Martha in the morning that would help. There was a sound, perhaps a foot fall, not behind them, but ahead.

And he loved Billy, perhaps enough to kill the man he thought caused Billy's death. Perhaps it's best we never do know the truth. Perhaps the other body hadn't been salvageable. Perhaps you belong in Hell, not her. Perhaps when she lost her soul at the end of the week or maybe, if she could help him recover his underworld, she'd tell Gabriel then.

Perhaps it was the knowledge they were safe because of her. Perhaps he would like me to stay in Houston. Perhaps I'm the dead weight in this relationship. Perhaps the day he realized what he'd done was irreparable, and he was going to lose her twice. Then perhaps you'll agree to let me try for my own edification? Perhaps he feared getting close to her if she was going to die in a few months, seeing as how past-Deidre crushed his heart, too.

Perhaps , if Romas kept the spiders away and Evelyn could make the days pass quickly, she might survive her visit. Perhaps the brief stay on the craft would help her adjust. Talal paused in an open doorway leading to a large, green field behind the dwelling occupied by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of warriors organized into sparring groups of four and five.

It was the sound of something falling, a chair perhaps , that startled him in his winter sleep. Perhaps I can get the smell out of that old dress. Perhaps we should charge her for a double room when Belfair shows up.

All I can think of is perhaps she sent her clothes out to a laundry and didn't want them mixed up. Perhaps being out here in the mountains would take your mind off all the troubles you're having. At the very least, perhaps they might be able to direct her to the help she so obviously needed. The long flannel nightgown, while perhaps frumpy in someone's eyes, was perfect for the time and season. Perhaps it will give Edith enough time to go to the authorities and force him to stay away.

Perhaps if I pretend Jerome doesn't exist, he really won't! Perhaps staying here a few days will help me to get my mind in order. But perhaps you should contact an attorney.

Perhaps I'm being unfair. Perhaps we should pay Annie Quincy's ghost a commission! She added, Perhaps I'll find one of those clocks that just flashes lights! The small undated photo was quite dark but showed a couple, perhaps in their thirties, standing before a church window.

Here we are, in this lovely parlor, just where Annie must have stood, perhaps when Rev. Martin proposed to her! O'Connor the little coins," Effie offered. If we keep saying that enough times, perhaps we'll believe it.

Perhaps my sister borrowed it. I gaze from my window to the hill as I watch the warm glow from his home and pray he perhaps is thinking of me as I am thinking of him.

Perhaps there was an earlier Mrs. Martin who died? Perhaps they interviewed some of the girls. Perhaps that's one of the reasons the good reverend was attracted to her. Perhaps Martha could take him. Perhaps she just moved some of the items around. Perhaps we should talk to Janet, too. Perhaps it was the blonde hair in the comb. I'd guess she left home quite young, perhaps as a mid-teenager, with little or no dough.

But perhaps this one afternoon when they were out here together, just like we are, alone in the world, it was different.

Perhaps Fred could help you. A typical year saw four hundred inches of snow fall atop Red Mountain, a hundred and seventy-five inches in Ouray, and perhaps a foot in Montrose, all within fifty miles. Perhaps I too will join her, before the lilacs and forsythia give color to this white and lonely landscape.

A half-burned candle sat in a dish on the bureau, perhaps signs of Edith's fascination with the last century. They spoke for a few moments and she promised to call again in the evening when, perhaps , she'd have more information.

Or, perhaps he wanted access to Edith's room. Was she perhaps , as he had speculated, covering for young Donnie Ryland? Perhaps , he thought, we are all owed contemplation of our actions, as a parting gift to those who succeed us so they might somehow learn from our deeds and mistakes. He could picture her climbing onto the velvet chair, perhaps even smiling, before kicking it away, and waiting the few agonizing moments until death set her free.

If it was Bird Song where Annie lived, perhaps the scratched window pane is still here! Perhaps not real 'ghosts' but things we don't understand—some essence of what occurred there. Perhaps they're together now. Perhaps Edith transcribed the last few pages herself.

However, he was even less inclined to leave Cynthia, perhaps alone, if Shipton were to come by for the stored belongings. Dean jogged up the hill to ice park, hoping to find Penny and Mick, and perhaps Donald Ryland, before confronting Jerome Shipton. I wouldn't be surprised he used them to mop up something, blood perhaps. Then he added, "Or, perhaps he used it, to stuff it in her mouth and silence her while he choked her to death. I'm sure she believed, perhaps rightly so, she couldn't just leave him.

I just want a little more time to bask in the beauty that perhaps I'm carrying a life. Perhaps we should endeavor to approach our problem together. I do not know how many around the world, hundreds, perhaps thousands. Do you think maybe we could start over, with a more civil tone perhaps?

Perhaps we have some about werewolves. He wondered if perhaps she was ignoring it and didn't want to see him. Perhaps when it came to Elisabeth, there existed a higher standard. Perhaps for you, but do you honestly think it is for Elisabeth? Perhaps you'd like to come to Fairhaven tomorrow for dinner? As the family climbed the stairs with Sarah, Jackson said, "I can take care of this, perhaps you should see to a drink of a different kind for yourself.

Perhaps I could go for the festivities then come back here before the full moon. Though I will say, I haven't yet made my final determination. He has a test he must pass. Perhaps this had been the evil of which Death spoke.

He felt strangely sorry for her, suddenly left alone by death, or perhaps duplicity. His mind pictured Cynthia Byrne, perhaps awake and alone with her grief, listening to Mother Nature's fury.

Perhaps if you just sign it Perhaps Byrne was afraid someone would connect him to the theft, a fear that would be eliminated by his "death"—a fear that was turning out to be well founded. Perhaps it was just Dean's unsatisfied Thursday night urge for female companionship, but he found he wanted very badly to see Cynthia Byrne.

The voice sounded nervous to Dean, and perhaps disguised. Perhaps that was the problem. Perhaps you need some motivation to do what you should.