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Discover LudwigThe phrase "but approximately" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is not exact but relatively close to what you are estimating. For example: "I thought we had enough money to buy a new car, but approximately $10,000 more was needed."
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SMSGlobal succeeded in blocking most messages, but approximately 5,000 were distributed to mobile numbers in the United Arab Emirates.
This suggests a growing political will to punish bribe payers; but approximately half of the OECD countries have yet to sanction a single offender.
The region accounts for three per cent of Australia's wine production, but approximately 20 per cent of the premium market.
Many recover at that stage, but approximately 1 in 200 persons with polio develops what is known as flaccid paralysis.
Accordingly, we develop a heuristic algorithm that can quickly, but approximately, solve the pipelined fission problem.
Fig. 2. The same as Fig. 1 but approximately 14 min after the earthquake.
In Fig. 7, however, the numbers are not exactly but approximately 40.
Mostly, the environmental change in the real word is not periodic, but approximately periodic.
However, some phenomena in the real world are not periodic, but approximately periodic or asymptotically periodic.
The diets were high or marginal, respectively, in n-3 fatty acids but approximately equal in n-6 fatty acids.
The vast majority of the ligands employed are noncyclic, but approximately 40 of the complexes feature macrocyclic ligands.
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