The phrase "about a pile" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a topic or subject related to a collection or heap of items.
Example: "The discussion was primarily about a pile of old books that needed to be sorted."
Alternatives: "regarding a stack" or "concerning a heap".
As a Sufi who wrote verse after verse about craving the annihilation of the self that occurs when the human encounters the Divine, he probably would not have had strong feelings about a pile of stone erected in his memory.
If "The Secret," a best-selling self-help book, promises riches through manifestation — think about a pile of gold and one will literally appear — "The Tools" represents a prosperity gospel better suited to a patient base that repeatedly encounters humiliation and failure even as it is conditioned to expect life-altering windfalls.
Or...maybe it's just a simpleminded mob excited about a pile of baloney.
It is safe to walk the streets here, even with your wallet hanging out of your pocket, unless you meet some non-locals of course (there have been no traffic jams either, the blight of the sport, and I'm not talking about a pile-up at Silverstone's Stowe Corner).
Betsy Monseu, chief executive of the American Coal Council, said her industry is deeply concerned about "a piling on of regulations that won't have any benefit and will have an extreme level of implications – for the economy, for electricity prices, for American families".
Cars can shuttle their collected knowledge down the line, propagating info about a pile-up potentially miles ahead in near real-time to help make it easier for human drivers to take action to avoid problems before they happen.
Then, she told the family about the white dump--a pile of leftover sweet food behind a pastry factory that was next to her school.
At Precinct 451, members of the local electoral commission set about counting a pile of glistening white ballots.
Ms. Asibey, 39, a consultant for nonprofit groups, said she does not worry about leaving a pile of clothing before rushing out to appointments.
ONE of the biggest bummers about inheriting a pile of money, if you believe the patrician class spy Nelson Aldrich, is coping with what he calls "envy management".
She also took on the pornography industry: "Thank you for your letter concerning our bookstall at Crewe Station," wrote John M Menzies on 28 May 1984, after Whitehouse complained about finding a pile of Knave magazines at a level where "almost any child could see and pick it up".
