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The phrase "about five children" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating the number of children in a given context.
Example: "At the park, there were about five children playing on the swings."
Alternatives: "approximately five children" or "around five children".
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On the way, I see a newspaper story about five children who are malnourished in Cambodia.
But, he added, "this film is not about me personally, it's about five children fighting cancer".
For one thing, autism is rare: "classical" autism occurs at a rate of about five children in 10,000.
Five years ago, she said, there were many more older people, among them Holocaust survivors, and only about five children in the Shabbat program.
He scanned the audience gathered that morning at the SoHo Apple Store, for what was advertised as a storytelling event for kids, and immediately noticed that there were only about five children present.
Mr. McCaffery added, "A few children who have developmental delays are very time-consuming and emotionally demanding, and you're talking about five children over the course of five years".
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There were about forty children in the room, most of them in elementary or middle school, and several mothers.
Carolina is the youngest of "about seven" children, he says.
The film is about two children in a peaceful village.
One of them was about two children finding a skull.
We're talking about two children who live in the same house.
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