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The phrase "about two dollars" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating a cost or price that is close to two dollars.
Example: "The book costs about two dollars at the thrift store."
Alternatives: "approximately two dollars" or "roughly two dollars".
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A ballot went for about two dollars – roughly a day's pay for a laborer – and groups of "floaters" banded together during heated campaigns to drive up the price.
Abel, who told me that she teaches five hundred and fifty-three students, and the funding she receives for their art supplies comes to about two dollars per child per year.
So for every dollar we reduce the deficit this year, we sacrifice about two dollars and twenty cents in GDP.
They are sold for about two dollars at drugstores.
Buy a small makeup bag, for about two dollars.
A beer costs about two dollars.
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That was about thirteen dollars.
(Today, one goes for about five dollars).
It was the equivalent of about six dollars.
An ordinary Mossberg shotgun sells for about three hundred and fifty dollars.
A monthly pass will cost about twenty-five dollars.
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