The phrase "about five years long" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the duration of an event, project, or experience that lasts approximately five years.
Example: "The research project is expected to be about five years long, allowing ample time for data collection and analysis."
Alternatives: "approximately five years" or "roughly five years in duration".
Mr. Crawford said he intended to stay about five years, long enough to get the redevelopment up and running.
Mr. Ripka plans to continue for about five years, long enough to pay down some debt, including a loan his parents took out to help finance the purchase of the home in Pine City where his family lives.
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The period during which the alarmists noted a correlation between increasing temperatures and increasing levels of carbon dioxide was only about twenty years long – from 1975 to 1995.
There was a concern, at the start of May, with the Sox tanking and the Bruins and Celtics thriving, that the sellout streak, which is now about seven years long, would come to an end.
Meanwhile, in 2015, the Caps were in the first year of the Trotz and MacLellan regime, the first year with a just-blossoming Kuznetsov/Burakovsky offense, the first year of a window that now appears to have been about three years long.
Such seasonal changes are more challenging to track far out in the solar system, given that a year on Titan lasts some 30 years on Earth (and each season is about seven years long).
But about five years ago, long after I'd left Massachusetts, I learned he had severe health problems, including a debilitating stroke.
"In the 1960s I think that in some sense the present was actually about three or four years long," he said, "because in three or four years relatively little would change".
Sonny and Cher emerged about five years ago as long hair and outlandish clothing stylesetters.
About five years ago, not long after I started up my research group at Cardiff University, something rather strange happened.
