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Discover LudwigThe phrase "consuming about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a rough estimate or approximation. Example: "The average American spends approximately $200 a month on dining out, consuming about 30% of their income."
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A local household in the county was consuming about 630kWh.
Initially estimated to last 12 weeks, the Adelphia trial ran 18 instead, eating through parts of three seasons and consuming about 72 days.
Early last month, a fire broke out in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Northern Arizona, consuming about 600 acres of land that are usually moist in the winter.
In what may serve as a cautionary tale to one-off marathoners, the training schedule that got me to the finish on the Champs-Élysées also got me used to consuming about 4,000 calories a day.
For example, the table of calorie consumption per head per day, which is perhaps the most direct indication of food availabilities, shows wide differences between individual countries, with Ireland, New Zealand, and Iceland at one end of the scale and India at the other, the former group consuming about twice as many calories per head per day as the latter.
Moreover, it offers interesting and challenging avenues to minimize energy consumption: especially, with current access networks consuming about 80% of the energy consumed in the Internet.
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The expectations customers have about consuming information – about products, their service, pricing, everything – is radically changing.
In short, Americans appear to be saving more and consuming less.Gloom about stockmarket losses and uncertainty about the prospect of war may explain some of the unease.
Intel has since shown a technology demonstration of one of its chips consuming only about a watt of power.
There is a battle consuming Egypt about the direction of its revolution, and the military council that is now running the country is sending contradictory signals.
For half a century, the 71-year-old investigative reporter has been digging into complex, time consuming stories about organized crime.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com