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The phrase "about fifty percent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating a quantity or proportion that is close to fifty percent.
Example: "The survey indicated that about fifty percent of participants preferred option A over option B."
Alternatives: "approximately fifty percent" or "roughly fifty percent".
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Muscles account for about forty percent of the resistance against the body's flexibility, while connective tissue accounts for about fifty percent.
In addition, results showed that the effectiveness of twisted yarns is about fifty percent lower than of the untwisted ones.
About fifty percent of all middle-aged men and thirty percent of all middle-aged women in North America develop some type of CAD.
But responders rejected about fifty percent of low offers, as they felt insulted with the low offers.
(If you look at figure 13 in this document, you'll see that the white out-of-wedlock birth rate nearly quadrupled between 1970 and 1990; it has only risen by about fifty percent in the two decades since).
La Presita was originally designed to be accessible primarily for pedestrians and secondarily for auto traffic; though about fifty percent of those surveyed at the community meeting regret that there isn't more auto access.
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Today, about sixty percent are cashing paychecks.
"We're doing about two percent on the Web".
About three percent of West Virginia voters are African-American.
About ninety percent of it makes little impression.
The rate of internet users in that income bracket is about sixty percent.
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