Michael Frayn once wrote (approximately): "Every year I watch the Labour conference and wonder why I always vote for this shower.
Maupassant wrote approximately three hundred stories, mostly from 1880 to 1890, when he was between thirty and forty years old.
Ceci has written approximately 450 articles, books, commentaries, reviews and chapters.
Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime - 840 of these addressed to his wife.
In 2015 Nice announced that doctors in England were writing approximately 10 million unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics a year.
Supplementing these longer studies, Nilus wrote approximately 1,000 letters, which survive in a mutilated collection, to varied recipients.
Twitter users wrote approximately 6.5 million posts during Monday night's debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
He wrote approximately 150 books in Arabic and Persian and edited the definitive Arabic versions of the works of Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Autolycus, and Theodosius.
Right now, because I have written approximately half of my book, I have tracked off onto those sorts of book-related procrastination reveries that have the great advantage of looking almost like tasks that urgently need doing.
