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The phrase "about five characters" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating the length of a word, string, or identifier in terms of the number of characters it contains.
Example: "The password should be about five characters long for better security."
Alternatives: "approximately five characters" or "roughly five characters".
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One big reason is because it creates even shorter URLs than TinyURL does by about five characters (http://bit.ly/ versus http://tinyurl.com/).
In a poll conducted by BuddyTV about five characters seldom seen on the show, she received the highest votes.
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Originally, there are in about thirty characters of Macbeth.
"Shazam!" isn't about two characters, Billy and Shazam.
Jealousy was about three characters one of whom was me.
The identity-theft subplot about two characters' stolen credit card information feels completely out of place.
"It's about two characters pretending to be people they're not," he said.
The tapes gave her some fifteen hundred single-spaced pages and about twenty-five characters.
It's quite haunting – it's about three characters who have agoraphobia.
"We wrapped about six characters in the first week of shooting".
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