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The phrase "about five degrees" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing temperature, angles, or measurements that are approximate.
Example: "The temperature outside is about five degrees cooler than it was yesterday."
Alternatives: "approximately five degrees" or "roughly five degrees".
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The mean yearly temperature in Aquitaine is about five degrees higher than that in Dublin.
Forecasters said that high temperatures should fall about five degrees over the next several days.
Factor in the humidity, and it will feel about five degrees hotter each day.
She consoles him over a box of frosted flakes; it's touching and everyone's heart warms by about five degrees.
It has been warming very rapidly, about five degrees over the past 50 years, 10 times the global average.
In experiments with eight healthy subjects walking on a treadmill, the ILC was found to reduce deviations from a reference trajectory to about five degrees within two strides.
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The temperature dropped to about twenty-eight degrees.
There seem to be about two degrees of separation.
The researchers tried setting it about three degrees cooler.
Or trying to it's about ten degrees out.
This one is hardy to about zero degrees.
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