The phrase "advanced by about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a change in position, time, or progress that is not exact but is estimated to be around a certain amount.
Example: "The deadline for the project has been advanced by about two weeks due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "moved forward by approximately" or "pushed ahead by roughly".
To the overall description of the expansive phase given by Connors et al. (2014), we add a pseudobreakup having taken place about 15 min before the onset time, which is in itself advanced by about 4 min from their nominal time of 4 30 UT.
As an illustrative example, a 47-year study of great tits Parus major breeding in nest-boxes in the United Kingdom has shown that over this half century, the mean egg-laying date of female great tits has advanced by about 14 days (Charmantier et al. 2008).
The growing season, meanwhile, has advanced by about five days, Bawa said.
Moreover, we observed that the phase of long-period lamellar twisting advanced by about 15° compared to that of short-period lamella.
Despite the gains in the major indexes, declining issues outnumbered those advancing by about 6 to 5 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.77 billion shares compared with 1.47 billion traded Thursday.
"The counter-terrorism forces are within 800 metres (0.5 mile) from the government complex," advancing by about 1 km in the past day, Rasool said.
In several chapters in my dissertation, I engage with arguments advanced by Du Bois about the nature and scope of the role of the informal representative.
The earlier Mungo date has often been cited by critics of a thesis advanced by Dr. Klein about the nature of the change that happened 50,000 years ago.
This chapter outlines the arguments advanced by many prominent thinkers about development who have concluded that the policies of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) were ill-designed, for they did not solve the problems they were supposed to, while at the same time they generated many new ones.
Baron was equally opposed to the ideas advanced by Ernst Kantorowicz and others about the pioneering modernity of the autocratic state of Frederic II in Sicily and Southern Italy, a historical interpretation that was difficult to square with a liberal and optimistically progressivist view of history.
Declines headed advances by about 4 to 3 on the New York Stock Exchange.
