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The phrase "about fifty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a quantity or number that is approximately fifty.
Example: "There were about fifty people at the event last night."
Alternatives: "approximately fifty" or "roughly fifty".
Exact(40)
There were about fifty in all.
The area burnt over is about fifty acres.
About fifty?
About fifty people showed up.
"About fifty per cent," he told me.
(It was priced at about fifty dollars).
Similar(19)
He is about forty.
"He looked about ninety.
About eight.
[laughs] We did about four.
There were about forty people.
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