I'm trying to place the text at the same line as the pagination's buttons.

As you can see in the code below, I've tried putting the text into a <span> element, rising the height of the span, and/or using the setting the vertical-align: middle; with no luck.
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-2">
        <nav aria-label="Page navigation">
            <ul class="pagination">
                <li>
                    <a href="#" aria-label="Previous">
                        <span aria-hidden="true">«</span>
                    </a>
                </li>
                <li><a href="#">1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">3</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">4</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">5</a></li>
                <li>
                    <a href="#" aria-label="Next">
                        <span aria-hidden="true">»</span>
                    </a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </nav>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-1" style ="vertical-align: middle;">
        <span style="height: 70px; display: block;">
            10 of 137 items
        </span>
    </div>
</div>
Thanks for helping
 
     
     
    