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The phrase "almost fifty pounds" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an approximate weight, often in contexts related to shopping, shipping, or personal weight.
Example: "The package weighs almost fifty pounds, so we will need help to lift it."
Alternatives: "nearly fifty pounds" or "about fifty pounds."
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Deep wrinkles creased the sides of his mouth; since being arrested, he had shed almost fifty pounds.
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Bryson, she told me, was born weighing almost six pounds.
In the jailhouse photographs, he is almost forty pounds lighter.
(On a heavy topic: this thing weighs almost three pounds).
But she's almost four pounds, which is pretty good".
I lost almost fifteen pounds because suddenly the world wasn't closed to me".
I've lost almost five pounds and gained muscle in my legs, especially my calves.
Because Matteo weighed almost nine pounds, "it really helped," she said in a telephone interview.
The baby was big, the doctor told me, nearly four kilos (almost nine pounds).
(By the end of the shoot, in October, he had lost almost thirty pounds).
Jamie Oliver, the British chef, recently lost almost thirty pounds and attributed it to seaweed, and to drinking only on weekends.
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