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The phrase "approximately this length" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate a rough measurement or estimation of length without being exact.
Example: "The board should be cut to approximately this length to fit the frame properly."
Alternatives: "about this length" or "roughly this length".
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Bowers notes that some sources state the film is 950 feet long, one such example is the advertising for the film which lists it as being approximately this length.
We searched for short motifs (~8 bp) on the basis that the known interaction sites of PRE-binding proteins in Drosophila are of approximately this length.
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It is suggested that the nascent pre-mRNA chain appears on the surface of the RNA polymerase II after reaching approximately double this length.
That's approximately the length of five NFL football fields.
The distance between posts is approximately the length of the tendon wound site.
The Most Beautiful Wall will live in the digital sphere, but will span 1,926 virtual miles, or approximately the length of the real-life Mexican border.
As a measure of the interval, the response is approximately the length of the interval.
Your step should be approximately the length of your foot.
Fold a large plastic bag into a rectangle that is approximately the length of the back of your shirt.
This approximately fivefold length reduction allowed the products to be fully sequenced using 250 bp, paired-end reads in a single Illumina MiSeq run.
Subjects were informed that the task would last approximately 20 minutes, and that this length was independent of any behavioral responses to the task, as was their overall payment.
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