Here is a sentence said by a boy who talked to an officer.

はてね 脱走未遂の罪は たしか二週間ほどぶちこまれっぱなしときいていたが まだ 十日 **やそこら** しかたっていねえじゃんか

My translation as following, please also help me correct it if I'm wrong.

Well, I committed a crime of planning to escape from (in this case, a reformed
school) so I have to be punished by being left (in this case, a room of
repentance) for 2 weeks for sure, but it has not passed 10 days as yet.

I'm not sure if it means "or so".
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What does the word 「やそこら」mean?
Yes, ～やそこら is a colloquial set phrase meaning "～ or so". This そこら is the same
そこら in [そこら辺](http://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%9D%E3%81%93%E3%82%89%E8%BE%BA). You
can find many examples on [BCCWJ
Corpus](http://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/corpus_center/bccwj/en/).

This phrase tends to be used when the speaker thinks the number is small
("only around ～").

>   * 彼女は10歳やそこらの子供に見える。 (implying 10-years-old is very young)
>   * 500円やそこらの金で出来ることは限られている。 (implying 500 yen is small)
>

Your translation attempt is not literal, but you're on the right track.
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まだ 十日 や そこら しか たっていねえじゃんか

> 接続詞「と」と「や」の違い <http://wingtrans.blog98.fc2.com/blog-entry-240.html>
>
> A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar この文法書には「や」が次のように定義されています。
>
>   * 「や」“a coordinate conjunction that is used to list two or more items
> (nouns or noun phrases) in an inexhaustive fashion” (p.536)
>

>
> そして「と」の定義は以下の通りです。
>
>   * 「と」“a particle which lists things exhaustively” (p.473)
>

>
> 上記の定義を比較すれば、両者の主な違いは直ぐに分かりますね。

----------------> inexhaustive vs. exhaustive

「や」is more inexact, informal.

I think ら in そこら is the same as in 我ら, われら 【我等】

I wouldn't be too surprised to find the expression [ ... days and thereabouts
] in Dickens and the like.

Found it. Ok, [or] is more inexact, informal.

> Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens
>
> ocw.nust.na/gutenberg/9/1/917/917-h/files/relative.htm
>
> ...... His name was unknown, he had never been seen until within about eight
> days or thereabouts, and was equally a ...
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