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The phrase "about the sum of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or referring to the total amount or result of a mathematical calculation or a collection of items.
Example: "The report provides detailed information about the sum of the expenses incurred during the project."
Alternatives: "regarding the total of" or "concerning the aggregate of".
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"Figure that's about the sum of it".
And that is about the sum of the movie's wisdom.
It was always about the sum of its parts".
Drink beer, smoke cigarettes and chase girls was about the sum of it.
They said, "Well, it makes no sense to talk about the sum of utilities". Let's talk about Pareto Efficiency.
That and a certain familiarity with "The Mikado" was about the sum of our cultural and linguistic expertise.
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The distance between nuclei in a van der Waals interaction or a covalent bond is about equal to the sum of the van der Waals or covalent radii, respectively, for the two atoms.
For a while, the whole just about transcended the sum of the wildly disparate parts, then everything imploded.
5.45: £154,000 - that's the ballpark figure being bandied about as the sum of money Chris Wood won't win because he's an amateur.
Last year, the combined stockmarket value of the two companies had fallen to about half the sum of their separate valuations before they merged in 1998.
(Ordinary water has a composition represented by H2O.) Thus, heavy water has a molecular weight of about 20 (the sum of twice the atomic weight of deuterium, which is 2, plus the atomic weight of oxygen, which is 16), whereas ordinary water has a molecular weight of about 18 (twice the atomic weight of ordinary hydrogen, which is 1, plus oxygen, which is 16).
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