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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually three or four" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when providing clarification or an estimate regarding a quantity or number.
Example: "I thought there were five participants, but it turns out there are actually three or four."
Alternatives: "about three or four" or "roughly three or four".
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Complications arise, as they often do for McGuane's characters, in the form of a woman, or actually two women, or actually three or four.
There are actually three or four of them in London, and me and Simon used to meet at the one in Camden before going to the cinema, and it always used to strike me as something funny to say.
The Times reports today that much of the information that led to the heightened alert is actually three or four years old and that authorities had found no concrete evidence that a terror plot was actually under way.
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Sovereignty in this institutionalized conspiracy was meant to rest in the Central Committee, but actually five or six magnates decided everything.
The guest "house" was actually five or six separate thatched-roofed cabañas scattered across the soft sand.
In terms of protecting the creatures, taxonomy had also been a problem, with confusion over whether there are actually five or seven species.
Crone became involved when National Public Radio asked him and other experts to come up with their own estimates; a May 14 NPR story based on their observations suggested that the rate was actually five or ten times higher.
It's actually twenty or thirty conversations, tons of small reinforcements, little moments of support and reassurance.
And Truman's election has the memory of closeness because of that incorrect newspaper headline, but it was actually about three or four points, if memory serves.
Nobody had to know that the gay-rights case of the century was actually about three or four men getting drunk in front of a television in a Harris County apartment decorated with bad James Dean erotica.
"Simone actually gets three or four feet higher than everyone else," said the retired gymnast Jordyn Wieber, a member of the American team that won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
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