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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ate about" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and may lead to confusion regarding its intended meaning.
Example: "I ate about three slices of pizza for dinner."
Alternatives: "consumed approximately" or "had roughly".
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And at the taste-test session a half-hour later, they ate about twice as many cookies as those who had lunch without playing games.
This is my approximation of it and, just for you, I ate about 10 portions to make sure I got it right.
Per capita, American adults ate about 44 pounds of sugar in 2007, compared with about 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup.
The other (Subject B) ate about an eighth of the best shrooms we've ever seen.
Male rats given the lower dose ate about as much as control rats, but outweighed them throughout the 22-week study.
We ate about half of our meals at the agriturismo.
"The more we gave them, the more they ate," Dr. Levitsky said, adding that when they ate at the 150 percent level, they ate about 200 additional calories.
At the start of the study, each group of kids ate about two meals with the television on daily.
She also ate about two pounds of chocolate a week and stopped smoking cigarettes only at the age of 117.
"I ate about thirty shrimp just now".
They probably ate about 200 lb. of food each day.
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