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The phrase "a cost of about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when estimating or approximating a price or expense related to a product, service, or project.
Example: "The project will incur a cost of about $5,000 for materials and labor."
Alternatives: "an estimated cost of" or "a price of approximately".
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The entire project is expected to have a cost of about $140 million.
The jet (list price £150m) is now to be refitted as a passenger aircraft at a cost of about £10m.
This year, it has produced more than 3,000 sequences at a cost of about $5,000 each.
To date, more than one million tons have been removed, at a cost of about 35 cents a pound.
The party would also abolish car parking charges at hospitals at a cost of about £200m a year.
By the time the funds materialized, he needed the tents shipped overnight— at a cost of about $4,000.
It took in more than $50 million in its first three weeks and had a cost of about $12 million.
Campaigners on the subject believe at least 20,000 extra nurses are urgently needed at a cost of about £700m.
The farmers' lands are being expropriated, many at a cost of about 6 cents a square foot.
The plant, if approved, would be built at the Oak Point Yards at a cost of about $950 million.
Volunteers from the Ipswich Transport Museum are rebuilding it at a cost of about £59,000.
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