The phrase "allocate about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The government plans to allocate about $500 million towards education reform.
Macquarie reckons that the country's pension funds allocate about 4% of their assets to infrastructure equity.
They also decided to allocate about $3.8 billion to prepare for a potential flu pandemic.
It also fails to allocate about $250 million in Federal aid to enroll Medicaid recipients in managed care plans.
However, Apple's accountants have found legal ways to allocate about 70 percent of its profits overseas, where tax rates are often much lower, according to corporate filings.
The disputed funds amount to less than $4bn out of a budget bill that would allocate about $1 trillion of government spending.
Companies typically allocate about 1% of pre-tax profits to worthy causes because giving something back to the community seems "the right thing to do".
Following the severe flooding, the Jamaican government allocated about $150,000 in funds for damage repair.
For example, from 2002 to 2009, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria only allocated about 0.5% of its funding towards MSM, sex workers, and injecting drug users.
This year, Congress allocated about $6 billion, or 16percentt of the cost.
He points out that online journalists were allocated about 50 tickets to the UK premiere.
The city budget has allocated about $117,000 to prepare the land for building.
