in a way vs ish

in a way

prep

  • To a certain degree, or in a certain sense. 

ish

noun

  • The letter which stands for the sh sound /ʃ/ in Pitman shorthand. 

  • Shit. 

adv

  • about, approximately 

  • somewhat, reasonably, fairly 

How often have the words in a way and ish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )