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Thanks Alex.

Thanks, I had it as "at least some decent period of time". I suppose really it's just better taken as a whole idiomatic sentence. In your 'tramp' example, I could translate that as 'at least some...

The full sentence:
'для того, чтобы управлять, нужно, как никак, иметь точный план на некоторый, хоть сколько нибудь приличный срок.'

which I translate as
'In order to govern, (it is) necessary...