"bouts" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal way of saying "about." For example, "I'm not sure bouts the exact measurements."
Over longer periods, stocks and shares tend to deliver a superior return to cash, despite periodic bouts of volatility, so if you have a long-term goal in mind, it may be worth taking the gamble.
Why are we celebrating a humble baby's birth by trying to gastronomically outdo Henry VIII between bouts of retail fever that would make Imelda Marcos blush?
In the seventh, a point Tyson had reached in only six of his 37 previous bouts, the champion finally roused himself.
The death toll in India's heatwave has climbed towards 1,500 as the country sweltered in one of the worst bouts of hot weather for several years.
Domestically, Armenia has experienced bouts of political turbulence.
What's more, you may only need to exercise in short bursts: A number of studies published last year showed the benefits of "exercise snacks" – three sessions a day of interval training (one minute of brisk walking, followed by one minute of strolling, repeated six times), or one-minute, intense bouts of cycling within an easy 10-minute workout.
He's young – the youngest sitting senator, actually – and an early Obama supporter, given to occasional bouts of (understandably) overwrought emotional rhetoric.
Thunderstorms were already rolling through Indiana and Missouri at dawn, and the Storm Prediction Center said multiple bouts of severe weather would develop through the day.
And there have been huge spikes during various bouts of political unrest, particularly the Arab spring.
The New Zealander, who played 22 tests between 2004 and 2009, has since opened up about the bouts of depression that have followed him on and off the pitch.
In the past decade this slogan has sounded ever more fanciful, as the state's capital, Jos, suffers bouts of the most brutal ethnic violence.
