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The phrase "about five pounds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating weight or discussing the approximate weight of an object or quantity.
Example: "The package weighs about five pounds, making it easy to carry."
Alternatives: "approximately five pounds" or "roughly five pounds."
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Despite a cut in price from $35,000 an ounce in 1990 to $225 an ounce today, Materials and Electrochemical Research still sells only about five pounds a year of the molecules, which look like soot.
Both weigh about five pounds.
It weighs about five pounds.
"I added about five pounds.
Oh, and I lost about five pounds.
A rack of about five pounds is $64.
It was a cow bass of about five pounds.
It takes about five pounds of ribs to feed four people generously.
Available from La Tienda, a boneless ham weighing about five pounds costs $249.
That's about five pounds of fake hair on my head daily.
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The Department of Fish and Game announced this week that it has stocked several urban lakes in the Los Angeles area with brooder-size channel catfish--about five pounds each.
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