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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about five students" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating a number of students in a given context.
Example: "In the classroom, there were about five students who completed the assignment on time."
Alternatives: "approximately five students" or "roughly five students".
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In the beginning, the club met once a week, with about five students.
Here's the process: Your cluster will be divided into learning teams of about five students.
As he left the room that Sunday, around midnight, he said, he saw a group of about five students and sensed they were staring at him.
Two days later, he said, about five students at school were using it, and by Tuesday the number was a couple of dozen.
For the past quarter century, I have interviewed about five students per year who are applying to my alma mater, Yale.
Once filled, the four new teams will bring to 14 the number of active Tiger Challenge teams, each with about five students.
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There are about thirty-five students in residence at one time.
There are about three students to every teacher and 20 of the college's 80 teachers are from other countries.
In 2018, about seven million students received Pell awards, and total Pell expenditures exceeded $28 billion.
The classes typically attract about four students a session.
Abu Dhabi, which accepts about two hundred students a year.
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